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Scott Chacon
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February 19, 2012
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The Open Source Business
Why and how to use Open Source in your business.
Scott Chacon
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February 19, 2012
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Transcript
the open source BUSINESS freeing your business, as in beer
who the hell is this guy? i swear i’ll go
super fast...
scott chacon
github SOCIAL CODING CIO
@chacon
github : first class october 2008
58 souls
open source & busine$$
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business advantages
business advantages
you should use open source libraries open source company code
use open source to find developers learn from the open source model
use libraries
reinventing the wheel
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> 1,100,000 original projects >> Repository.count(:conditions => { :parent_id =>
nil, :public => 1 }) => 1169692
advantages better code faster development community
contribute back
$ date Mon Jan 13 10:26:39 EDT 2012 $ git
clone git://github.com/test-org/test-proj Cloning into test-proj... $ cd test-proj/ $ vim README $ git commit -am 'made it better' [master dbeb245] made it better 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) $ (fork it on github) $ git remote add mine
[email protected]
:schacon/test-proj.git $ git push mine master:feature_name ... To
[email protected]
:schacon/test-proj.git 9457e38..dbeb245 master -> feature_name $ date Mon Jan 13 10:27:49 EDT 2012
$ date Mon Jan 13 10:26:39 EDT 2012 $ git
clone git://github.com/test-org/test-proj Cloning into test-proj... $ cd test-proj/ $ vim README $ git commit -am 'made it better' [master dbeb245] made it better 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) $ (fork it on github) $ git remote add mine
[email protected]
:schacon/test-proj.git $ git push mine master:feature_name ... To
[email protected]
:schacon/test-proj.git 9457e38..dbeb245 master -> feature_name $ date Mon Jan 13 10:27:49 EDT 2012 clone improve fork push pull request
$ date Mon Jan 13 10:26:39 EDT 2012 $ git
clone git://github.com/test-org/test-proj Cloning into test-proj... $ cd test-proj/ $ vim README $ git commit -am 'made it better' [master dbeb245] made it better 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) $ (fork it on github) $ git remote add mine
[email protected]
:schacon/test-proj.git $ git push mine master:feature_name ... To
[email protected]
:schacon/test-proj.git 9457e38..dbeb245 master -> feature_name $ date Mon Jan 13 10:27:49 EDT 2012
one minute
share your code
if it does not exist, and it is general, OS
it
software commodity ecosystem
fungible
fungible gas, not cars
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efficiency
community
github grit bert / ernie resque proxymachine cijoe janky linguist
github-services jekyll markup albino progit
github grit bert / ernie resque proxymachine cijoe janky linguist
github-services jekyll markup albino progit
github-services
linguist
linguist
@stats = { :commits => 120, :lines => 2554, :authors
=> 52, :percent => 36% } github-services
@stats = { :commits => 273, :lines => 3367, :authors
=> 59, :percent => 52% } jekyll
@stats = { :commits => 127, :lines => 3273, :authors
=> 46, :percent => 18% } resque
free work
recruit
ABC
ABC always be committing
open source development
open source team
company team
?
what do you want from your team?
innovation speed agility creativity collaboration communication
8-5, M-F work day cubicles hierarchy interruptions compartmentalization 10 days
vacation
high school, not university?
github the magical tale of
no office hours no dev meetings no vacations no assignments
no managers free beer
MVP
M V P inimum iable roduct
M V P inimum iable rocess
what do we have?
great pay great health care free gym membership whatever hardware
you want kindle + amazon money iphone + plan side projects
unlimited conferences
drinkups
drinkups Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Colombia Czech
Republic Denmark England Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Israel Italy Japan New Zealand Norway Poland Russia Scotland Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Uruguay
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classes (spanish, arduino)
free beer
executive lounge
side projects
campfire:hubot the friendly neighborhood campfire robot
holman/play
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talks.githubapp.com
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DEAL WITH IT
DEAL WITH IT
hey hippie, don’t your employees just sit around smoking pot
and giggling all day, then?
last year 400 pull requests (~1 per day) last month
80 pull requests (~3 per day)
deploys per month
1740 total deploys 9 deploys per work day
3h / 6500h
user growth
we’re getting stuff done
precedent
University of Manchester Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
University of Manchester Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 10%
University of Manchester Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 10%
University of Manchester Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 10%
University of Manchester Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 10%
University of Manchester Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 10%
twitter week
atlassian 20%
google 20%
github 100%
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intrinsic / extrinsic motivation
autonomy mastery purpose
Theory X Theory Y
are trustworthy? seek responsibility and accountability? seek meaning in their
work? naturally want to learn? don’t resist change but they resist being changed? prefer work to being idle? Do you believe that developers:
are trustworthy? seek responsibility and accountability? seek meaning in their
work? naturally want to learn? don’t resist change but they resist being changed? prefer work to being idle? Do you believe that developers:
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autonomy mastery purpose
autonomy mastery purpose
autonomy team culture pay well
autonomy mastery purpose
work something you have to do
work the tool that helps you achieve your full potential
something you have to do
no office hours no dev meetings no vacations no assignments
no managers free beer
?
summary
use open source libraries open source company code use open
source to find developers learn from the open source model you should
thanks
scott chacon @chacon speakerdeck.com/schacon