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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).

  • 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!