Uncovering The Black Magic of an Open Source Community While the many advantages of open source software are obvious these days, to many it is still a mystery how open source communities are formed and how they function. In this talk we will discuss the different elements of successful open source communities, the different possible structures and how to interact with them as an individual and as a company. In this talk Arthur and Nir will cover the following topics: What are the different types of open source communities? Why and How to start a new open source software community? What are the possible types of communities, and what are the pros and cons for each? How should an organization and an individual interact and contribute to an open source community? Arthur Berezin - Arthur is the Co-Founder of JovianX Anything-As-A-Service(XaaS) Platform, in his previous role as Dir. Product Management at Cloudify Arthur formed the Apache ARIA-TOSCA community under the Apache Software Foundation, Prior to that Arthur was Sr. Technical Product Manager for OpenStack at Red Hat. Nir Yechiel - Nir is a Principal Product Manager at Red Hat concentrating on networking technologies for Red Hat OpenStack Platform. He has vast experience with open source communities, including OpenStack, Open vSwitch, OVN, DPDK and OpenDaylight.

1. Uncovering The Black Magic of
an Open Source Community
Arthur Berezin (@ArthurBerezin), Co-Founder, CEO JovianX
Nir Yechiel (@nyechiel), Principal Product Manager, Red Hat
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6. Governance
Community(People)
License
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7. License
Permissive Restrictive

8. Governance
Permissive Restrictive
Apache Software
Foundation
Linux Foundation
Fully Controlled
Project
Your Own Foundation
Eclipse Foundation
Free Software Foundation
OpenStack Foundation

11. The Apache Way
○ Culture
○ Communication
○ Transparency
○ Collaboration
○ Community
○ Meritocracy

12. ASF Roles
○ User
○ Developer
○ Committer
○ PMC Member
○ PMC Chair
○ ASF Member

15. Governing Board
Technical Steering
Committee
End User Board

18. OPEN SOURCE AT RED HAT

19. We participate in and create
community-powered
upstream projects.
PARTICIPATE INTEGRATE STABILIZE
We integrate upstream
projects, fostering open
community platforms.
We commercialize these
platforms together with a rich
ecosystem of services and
certifications.
RED HAT’S PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MODEL
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20. OPEN SOURCE PRINCIPLES
COLLABORATION
TRANSPARENCY
SHARED PROBLEMS
ARE SOLVED FASTER
PRAGMATIC
MERITOCRACY
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21. OPEN SOURCE FUELS RAPID INNOVATION
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OPEN SOURCE ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS
GETTING CHANGES
ACCEPTED UPSTREAM
USER INTERFACES
SOLVING COMMON CHALLENGES
THROUGH COLLABORATION
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BRILLIANT INNOVATION
RAPID ITERATION
QA AND INTEGRATION
PREDICTABLE, STABLE
LIFE CYCLE SUPPORT

23. FROM COMMUNITIES TO ENTERPRISE
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27. Thank You!
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