Three Shall Be. My slides from ApacheCon NA 2014 in Denver where I simplify the complexities of various FOSS aspects.

1. Jim Jagielski || @jimjag
Three Shall Be The
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Licensing, Governance, Community and more...

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About me
➡ Jim Jagielski
➡ Hacker and developer
➡ Wearer o’ many hats at the ASF
➡ Director and President: Outercurve
➡ Council member: MARSEC-XL
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➡ Consulting Engineer with Red Hat
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➡ @jimjag

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Why?

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Users
➡ Access to the source code
➡ Avoid vendor lock-in (or worse!)
➡ Much better software
➡ Better security record (more eyes)
➡ Much more nimble development - frequent releases
➡ Direct user input
➡ Open Standards

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Companies/Orgs
➡ Having a real impact in the development and direction of IT
➡ Sense of membership in a community (most of the time)
➡ Save on expensive resources
➡ Ability to focus on what differentiates yourself
➡ Allows for nimbleness and agility
➡ Increased revenue and market share

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Hackers/Developers
➡ Having a real impact in the development and direction of IT
➡ Personal satisfaction: I wrote that!
➡ Sense of membership in a community
➡ Sense of accomplishment - very quick turnaround times
➡ Developers and engineers love to tinker - huge opportunity to do
so

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Promises

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Let’s pretend
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Use

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Modify

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Share

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Licenses

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Give me Credit (ALv2, BSD,…)

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Give me Fixes (LGPL, EPL,…)

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Give me Everything (GPL, AGPL,…)

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The Past (permissive)

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The Present (weak copyleft)

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The Future (strong copyleft)

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Governance/Community

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Walled Garden

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BDFL

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Meritocracy

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Foundations

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501(c)3 : Public Charity

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501(c)6 : Trade Group

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None

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Community Building

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Use Email Lists

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Drive Consensus
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No Poisonous People

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Play Nice, Share, Have Fun

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Thanks
Twitter: @jimjag
Emails:
jim@jaguNET.com
jjagielski@outercurve.org
jim@apache.org
jimjag@redhat.com
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