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
