It’s not just about the t-shirts.

When your open source project stops being cool.

Sharone Zitzman, VP Marketing @ Cloudify@shar1z

Humanity

Be Very Afraid

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests.

You want to help all of them, but for now you’re putting it off. Maybe you had a hard day at work, or you’re tired, or you’re just trying to enjoy a weekend with your family and friends.

A Day in the Life of an Open Source Maintainer

Typical Open Source Landscape

Other Innovators

The Incumbents

The Giants

Monetization is a Bitch

No Free Lunches

Closed Source isn’t a Silver Bullet

“Open source doesn’t have more bugs, they’re just fully transparent for all to see.”

Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack

I want to challenge our definition of COOL

Making the Impossible Possible

“8000 Servers, More Than 280,000 Cores, and 33,000 VMs all on OpenStack” - Tim Bell,CERN

Maintaining Developer Engagement for Years

Trusted by the Biggest and Baddest

Enabling a Marketplace of Profitability

One More Thing

Suggested Reading

• Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure

• What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

• Why I took October off from OSS volunteering

• The fork? Node.js: Code showdown re-opens Open Source wounds

• Walkaway, Corey Doctorow

Thank You

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