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  • 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).

  • Transform Your Business with Open Source Entrepreneurship

    Transform Your Business with Open Source Entrepreneurship

    This is a webinar I did for the Linux Foundation earlier this month. If you missed it, you can catch it on demand!

     

  • 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.

  • Toyota First to Market with Automotive Grade Linux Product

    Toyota First to Market with Automotive Grade Linux Product

    For those of us who follow open source business trends and products, we were blessed with a landmark announcement today from Toyota: the 2018 Camry will feature an entertainment system based on Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), the Linux Foundation collaborative project that counts car makers Toyota, Honda, Suzuki, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan as members.

    This marks the first official in-car infotainment product based on AGL, with others sure to follow. From the announcement:

    AGL is an open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation that is changing the way automotive manufacturers build software.  More than 100 members are working together to develop a common platform that can serve as the de facto industry standard. Sharing an open platform allows for code reuse and a more efficient development process as developers and suppliers can build once and have a product work for multiple OEMs. This ultimately reduces development costs, decreases time-to-market for new products and reduces fragmentation across the industry.

    The Linux Foundation has led the effort to help more industries become collaborative in an effort to become more efficient at product development. The auto industry is a logical choice, because very few people buy a car based on who makes the entertainment system, so why not collaborate on the base functions and innovate on top of that platform?

    I’ll be interested to learn more about Toyota’s product development and how they go about putting together the final version that you’ll see in your car. Expect more on this story soon.