Planet JM

Category: Events

  • Prague Symposium Agenda – Oct 26

    As part of our ongoing relationship with the Linux Foundation, we have another symposium coming up this week, co-located with the Open Source Summit in Prague. (Registration is $150 for OS Summit attendees) We have a great agenda!

    What: Open Source Entrepreneur Symposium

    When: Thursday, October 26, 9:00 – 17:00

    Where: “London” Conference Room, Open Source Summit

    Tickets: Add to your Open Source Summit Europe registration – inquire at the registration desk.

    Agenda

    9:00 – There is no Open Source Business Model – Stephen Walli, Microsoft

    9:55am – Bootstrapping is the New Black: Building a Profitable Open Source Enterprise from Day One – Leslie Hawthorn, Red Hat, and Beth “pidge” Flanagan, Togan Labs

    10:50 – coffee break

    11:00 – Innovating in the open: Lessons from a 3 time founder of successful open source based businesses – Evan Powell, Cloudbyte

    12:00 – Lunch

    13:15 – Managing internal or external open source supply chains – Shane Coughlan, Leader, Open Chain Project

    14:10 – Why contributing upstream is sustainable engineering – Colin Charles, Percona

    15:00 – break

    15:10 – The great open source business model smackdown. It’s the debate to end all debates! Evan Powell, Stephen Walli, Beth Flanagan, and Colin Charles

  • EnterpriseIT Writeup on LA Symposium

    EnterpriseIT Writeup on LA Symposium

    If you’ve been watching this space, you know we’ve been gearing up for our LA symposium on September 14, co-located with the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit. Swapnil Bhartiya walks through the different talks and why you should go – as well as a good bit from me about OSEN and the event:

    “The secret of 21st century innovation is that much of it doesn’t happen inside software vendors anymore, rather the most innovative companies have learned how to make use of all the innovation that happens outside their office walls and often beyond their control.

    So how does one take advantage of the open source innovation happening outside of your purview? And learn how to build products and business in this new collaborative model? That’s why you should attend – RSVP now ($149.99).

  • Linux.com: 4 Quadrants of Open Source Entrepreneurship

    Linux.com: 4 Quadrants of Open Source Entrepreneurship

    In light of my Linux Foundation webinar, Building a Business on Open Source, (today, August 1, at 10am PDT/1pm EDT) as well as upcoming meetups and the OSEN Symposium co-located with Open Source Summit, I wrote a piece all about the 4 areas that define open source entrepreneurship: Automation, Collaboration, Community and Governance.

    Lots of companies, even large proprietary ones, had started to use open source software in their products and services, but there was very little in the way of sharing that came from them. Even so, many of them did a poor job of participating in the upstream communities that created the software they used. Shouldn’t these companies get the full benefit of open source participation? I also came across a few startups who wanted to participate in open source communities but were struggling with how to find the best approach for open source participation while creating great products that would fund their business. Most of them felt that these were separate processes with different aims, but I thought they were really part of the same thing. As I continued down this fact-finding path, I felt strongly that there needed to be more resources to help businesses get the most out of their open source forays.

    Read the full article at Linux.com.

  • OSEN Symposium Program Revealed

    OSEN Symposium Program Revealed

    We’re happy to announce that we have set the preliminary agenda for the OSEN Symposium, co-located with the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit in Los Angeles on September 14.

    We have an incredible lineup!

    9am: The Principles of Open Source Entrepreneurship

    John Mark Walker, Creator of OSEN

    10am: How to successfully enter the FOSS emerging market

    VM Brasseur, Technical Business and Open Source Strategy Consultant

    11am Innovating in the open: Lessons from a 3 time founder of successful open source based businesses

    Evan Powell, CEO, Cloudbyte

    1pm There is no Open Source Business Model

    Stephen Walli, Open Source and Tech Strategy Consultant

    2pm Effective Business Leadership with Open Source Supply Chain Management

    Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Leader

    3pm The World Bank GeoNode Study: 200% ROI on Open Source Community Participation

    James Vasile, Partner at Open Tech Strategies

    Register today!

  • Linux Foundation Webinar: Open Source Entrepreneurship Howto

    Linux Foundation Webinar: Open Source Entrepreneurship Howto

    osen-webinar.svg

    I’m happy to announce that on August 1, 10am PDT/1pm EDT, I will be leading a webinar from the Linux Foundation on open source entrepreneurship. “What is that?” you may ask. Open source entrepreneurship is the compendium of ideas around building your business process on open source principles. This means optimizing for open source collaboration, code and communities. Here are some qualities often exhibited by open source entrepreneurs:

    • Build on existing open source platforms
    • Abhor NIH and push teams away from it
    • Structure teams for massive collaboration
    • Allergic to corporate work silos
    • Have spent extensive time learning how to operate in open source communities
    • Tell anyone who will listen that product development is inefficient
    • Often heard saying, “There’s an upstream community/ecosystem already working on that. You should join that effort.”

    As we learn more about the pervasiveness and ubiquity of open source code, we’re finding that “open source” means so much more than what license you use or the source code you utilize. Open source is now a term of art that includes the process of collaboration, process automation, and building on the work of external ecosystems. Every product manager, engineering manager, investor, CIO/CTO and, yes, entrepreneur needs to understand these concepts intuitively.

    From this webinar, attendees will gain an understanding of what it means to practice the art of open source entrepreneurship and optimize their business for the continuing open source revolution.

    Register for the webinar now!

  • Announcing OSEN Seattle Meetup on Aug 2

    I’m happy to announce that we now have a space in Seattle to host a meetup on August 2. RSVP at meetup.com.

    https://www.meetup.com/OSENMeetupSEA/events/241851767/

    We’re looking forward to getting to know members of the Seattle open source entrepreneur community!

    This will be a chance to meet and talk to experienced open sourcerers in the area. Come and trade best practices and anti-patterns with others looking to make the most of their open source experience. Open Source has transformed the technology world, and this is your opportunity to learn from the best. To spur discussion, we will feature the following speakers:

    There is no Open Source Business Model

    Stephen Walli: former Microsoft and Outercurve open source engineering lead, currently Docker’s open source strategist. Twitter: @stephenrwalli

    There are best practices to understand when building products from open source software, but there are a number of anti-patterns that crop up along the way. Product teams (from engineering to marketing) need to understand these patterns and practices to participate best in open source project communities and deliver products and services to their customers at the same time. These patterns hold regardless of whether the vendor created and owns the project or participates in projects outside their control.

    Building a business on OSS – whats in it for the community

    Steve Mayzak: VP Solution Architecture at Elastic. Twitter: @smayzak

    Steve will talk about his experiences working for Open Source companies and how the search for the best business model continues.  He has worked at Springsource and now Elastic and built teams of Solution Architects.  His goal has been to bring the best combination of OSS and Commercial software to the community to create a mutually beneficial relationship.  Whats good for the community has to be good for the business and vice versa.

    How to Utilize a Community Distribution in a Cloud Native Context

    John Mark Walker: long-time open source product, ecosystem and community expert and founder of the Open Source Entrepreneur Network. Twitter: @johnmark

    In olden times, when we used IRC and liked it, there were several steps along the way from creating an open source project to releasing a product. Some of these were artifacts of the (lack of) tooling of the time, such as the need to assemble pieces into a whole before releasing as a product. That “first cut” of distribution became a community project in itself. Now that we have better, automated tooling for development, you may be fooled into believing that this “first cut” step is no longer needed. Au Contraire! John Mark will demonstrate why this is still necessary with examples from Fedora, CloudFoundry and Moby.

    Food and beverages will be served!

     

  • Inaugural Bay Area Meetup – Aug 3

    Inaugural Bay Area Meetup – Aug 3

    We’re coming to San Francisco! Thanks to Docker for agreeing to host us as we convene in their SOMA headquarters on August 3, 2017. Featured speakers are Stephen Wall, Jono Bacon and yours truly – more to come!

    Agenda

    Join us for our inaugural Open Source Entrepreneur Network meetup in the Bay Area. This meetup will feature the following speakers:

    Stephen Walli: former Microsoft and Outercurve open source executive, currently Docker’s open source strategist

    Stephen will talk about “There is no Open Source Business Model”

    John Mark Walker: long-time open source product, ecosystem and community expert and founder of the Open Source Entrepreneur Network

    John Mark will present a talk on “How to Utilize a Community Distribution in a Cloud Native Context”

    Jono Bacon: Founder of the Community Leadership Summit, author of The Art of Community, and now the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting

    Jono will talk about “Building an Effective Community Strategy”

  • Next Boston Meetup: July 19 at Acquia

    Next Boston Meetup: July 19 at Acquia

    https://www.meetup.com/OSENMeetup/events/241212309/

     

    Thanks to Acquia and Underscore VC for hosting our next meetup on Wednesday, July 19, at Acquia’s corporate headquarters in downtown Boston!

    Here’s the agenda:

    6pm: Food and drinks are served

    6:30: Evan Klein, Black Duck Software

    Evan is the Manager at Black Duck’s Center for Open Source Research and Innovation and wrote the 2017 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis.

    Black Duck On-Demand performed security audits of more than 1000 commercial applications in 2016. Analysis of the findings confirm the importance of open source in application development, with 96% of the applications scanned utilizing open source. However, it also highlights the persistent challenges organizations face in effectively securing and managing their open source. Black Duck’s Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) reveals that versions of some of the most commonly used components contained high-risk vulnerabilities, and that 67% of the audited applications contained known open source vulnerabilities.

    7pm: David Hurley, Mautic

    The Mautic community believes in giving every person the power to understand, manage, and grow their business or organization. Mautic is focused on helping this belief become a reality by getting powerful marketing automation software into the hands of everyone.

    When David Hurley (@dbhurley) began Mautic he had a big goal. A plan to move horizons, and change the world. He foresaw Mautic as software made by the people and for the people and as such the community became a top priority and integral part. Those people interested in becoming involved in a community with a vision to change the world should consider getting involved in Mautic. People are the priority. Equality is the goal.

    7:30pm (time willing): John Mark Walker, OSEN

    The importance of the community distribution in product development.

  • Next Cambridge Meetup – IoT and Mobile on June 27

    Next Cambridge Meetup – IoT and Mobile on June 27

    desktop-header

    We’re going back to the CIC this month for our next Cambridge meetup. RSVP at meetup.com/OSENMeetup/

    This month’s topic will be all about Open Source product development in the context of mobile, edge computing, and IoT. We’ll talk about how to deal with patents and compliance, as well as a sober look at the state of security in this space and how to manage risk. And finally, we’ll touch on engineering principles in the cloud native space that allow you to benefit from upstream innovation while still delivering product reliably.

    Agenda

    6 – 6:30 – Meet and greet (and eat and drink)

    6:30 – 7 – Patents and Mobile Computing – Deb Nicholson, Open Invention Network.

    7 – 7:30 – State of Security in IoT and Edge Computing – TBD

    7:30 – 8 – Product Development in Cloud Native, a Defense of the Community Distribution

    Looking forward to seeing everyone!

    RSVP at meetup.com/OSENMeetup/

  • Meetup 5/25 – Product Delivery in the Age of Cloud Native

    Meetup 5/25 – Product Delivery in the Age of Cloud Native

    Print

    We have secured space at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, MA, for a meetup on May 23.

    We’ll talk about product management in cloud native environments, which basically means the intersection of open source, devops, and continuous integration as it pertains to automated service/product delivery.

    So bring your devops hat and get ready to think about risk vectors and how to manage them in this kind of environment. Should be fun!