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  • 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

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    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

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    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!

  • Open Source Product Management Talk – Slides and Video

    Product Management in Open Source can be an overlooked topic. Asking questions to define what open source really is, its overall value to a product and what options there are when attempting to scale a project can enable a product to grow with minimal pains. This presentation is an overview on the topic and its details.

    [slideshare id=75831384&doc=dannyrosen-opensourceproductmanagement-170509214312]

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPeCQNiKkbc]

  • Updated: OSEN Meetup in Cambridge, MA 4/25

    Update: Red Hat is sponsoring food and drinks, and the CIC is sponsoring meeting space. Our agenda is as follows:

    • 6pm – Introductions, food and drinks
    • 6:30pm – Open Source Business Models, Dave Neary, Red Hat
    • 7pm – From Project to Product, John Mark Walker, Dell EMC and OSEN
    • 7:30pm – Learning from the OpenNebula Example, Ignacio Llorente, OpenNebula

    We just formed a meetup group for the Boston, MA area – read about it at meetup.com.

    So what’s this about? In this first meetup, we’ll talk about taking code from project to product – what do you need to know when undergoing this journey?

    Who should attend:

    • CIOs/CTOs who need to understand dynamics of open source ecosystems and their impact on supply chains

    • Product managers who want to understand modern methods for product development

    • Founders how have a great idea and need to efficiently build on platforms of innovation

    • Investors who want to understand what to look for in their startup portfolio

    • Anyone, anywhere, who wants to take an open source project and build a solution