financing freedom - section one 0.3
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This is the final draft of section one of the tutorial. Of course, I need to practice the timing to see where each 30 minute section takes.TRANSCRIPT
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How to organize and fund free culture
projects
Kevin ShockeyFounder, Mis Tribus
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What?
Free culture projects often fail due to a lack of resources.
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So What?
By focusing on raising funds,a project can increase its' chances
of survival
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Why me?
Computer Science, Math, Financials, and Software Development
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Why now? Declining interest in FLOSS Lingering confusion surrounding free software Lack of unity, more division Cloud computing and proprietary platforms, like iOS, are:
- Reducing awareness of FLOSS foundations- Reducing interest with a superior user experience
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O'Reilly Home Page (06/ 16/ 2012)
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Disclaimer
Some of this class Is based on theories
I'm currently researchingAnd using
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Tutorial as a Startup Financing Freedom - “How to organize and fund free culture projects”
- Slides- Handout- eBook
Supporting Materials- Background- Data- Illustrations (Graphs)- Vision for Maximum Strategy
Community
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So far...Startup Progress Funding Free Culture:
- Blog: news.financingfreedom.com- Homepage: www.financingfreedom.com- @_ff12- Tumblr: FundingFreeCulture.Tumblr.com
One Blogger post triggers:- 3 Automated tweets on 3 different accounts
- Twitter- Linked In- Financing Freedom Page on Facebook
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Assumptions Free Culture Project Execution Project Funding
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Free Culture Assumptions Free culture projects often fail
- Never shipping - Unable to attract a community
Division makes free culture weaker- Contributors must choose- Only able to sustain two or three projects
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“Free” Assumptions Ambiguiety between free and open source software In many cases there is a an unequal value transaction:
- Many use “free” software- Few look for ways to give back to the community
- Volunteer- Recommendations- Donations- Merchandise- Services
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State of FLOSS? Projects in emergent, growth, & maturity stages State is Mixed
- Enterprise recognition- Limited user recognition/support- Finances (resources) are limited (often to just one person)
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Top 10 FLOSS Hall of Fame 1. Linux Kernel2. GNU Utilities & Compilers3. Ubuntu4. BSD5. Samba
(Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers. (2009). http://mstrb.us/zjn6zK)
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Top 10 FLOSS Hall of Fame6. MySQL7. BIND8. SendMail9. OpenSSH & OpenSSL10. Apache
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Measuring FLOSS Through search, Google Trends Through search, Google Scholar Through investigation, Mining SourceForge.net Repository
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Search is relat ive Search is a simulation;
- By measuring “reality” we affect reality- It is a proxy,
- We humanely can not understand the math involved- Artificial intelligence
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What SEO Tells Us Many Thanks to Stephen O'Grady and his SEO research, which he shared: “The State of
Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline?”
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General trends for mature projects - Linux
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Apache
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MySQL
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PHP
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Open Source
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GPL
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Emerging Technologies Dominated by FLOSS – Linux Cloud
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NoSQL
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Hadoop
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Google Scholar Advanced Search Parameters
- “Open Source” exact phrase all in title- “Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics” subject area- Year to Year (eg; 2012 to 2012, 2011 to 2011, etc.)
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2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 19970
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Direct Results
Open Source Academic Papers by Year
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“Open Source” vs “Free Software” (since 1983)
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Free Software Results
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Academic Paper Analysis Growth reversed in 2011, but 2012 will show new growth Free software has not been researched much
- Out-published by a margin of 5 to 1 by open source.
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Academic Paper Quest ions Has research on “open source peaked? Why isn't anyone researching “free software?” Has “open source” obscured the importance of free software?
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SourceForge Research Data Archive (SRDA) Many tables archived from February 2005 to present Data includes any churn in the number of active users, projects, messages, etc. Observations
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Monthly additions of users is slowing down
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User base is STILL growing- Just over 3 million users
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Sharp increase in the number of projects
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Number of packages is also up.
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Number of releases are down
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Number of files are down.
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Downloads are generally rising- Extreme variances are unexplained
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3.6 Million in January 2009 *
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Is GitHub Eating all of SourceForge's Candy?
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SourceForge and GitHub Smackdown Three comparisons
- Number of Users- Number of Academic Papers- Number of Repositories
Round One - Number of Users:- SF (3 Million to 1.6 Million)
Round Two – Academic papers- SF (195 to 8)
Round Three – Repositories- No correlation for repositories
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Project Execut ion Assumptions Most projects end in failure A successful project organization has emerged FLOSS projects are similar to startups Execution is achieved through testing assumptions
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Open Source Failure A project that is unable to grow a community beyond the founder. A project that fails to ship anything. Abandoned projects
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Open Source Failure A project that is unable to grow a community beyond the founder. A project that fails to ship anything. Abandoned projects...when either of the 1st two conditions reoccurs
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SourceForge Projects 324,000 projects 268,554 projects with only 1 developer (83%) 44,446 “viable” projects (14%)
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Developers Per Project
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Open Source Success Constant and synchronous communication Consistency in methodological development approach Geographical dispersion management through an extensive testing culture FLOSSD experience in accepting and handling the environmental limitations
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Crit ical Success Factors Obligatory use of project methodology An extensive testing culture (Lean Startup)
- Build Measure Learn or your competition will Irrelevance is your enemy
- Mastery of Internet and Social Media marketing Create, nuture, and manage a viable community
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An Inf inite Marketplace Thousands of new OSS projects every month Thousands of new apps on Android and Apple A hundred thousand new e-Books Millions of social media updates
- Photos- Videos- Blog entries
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Irrelevance is Your Enemy