Jeff HerronVP, Beaconfire

Consulting@beaconfire

Chris Lundberg

CEO, Salsa Labs@salsalabs

Ryan MarshPresident, Layla Grace

Foundation@laylagrace

Mark JaquithCovered Web

Services@markjaquith

heather gardner-madras

gardner-madras | strategic creative

Free means lots of things

What do WE mean?

Free Range

Free Market

Free the Prisoners

Smoke-Free

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Free beer!

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Free kittens!

Free speech

All software has a cost

• Unreliability• Staff time• Maintenance• Limitations• Support

No exceptions

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Free = No Money

Open Source…

…is serious stuff

You can navigate Open Source

(but it helps if you speak code)

Hands-off: Hosted Source

Let’s dig in!

Apache

Commercial Use

Derivativ

es

Allowed

Share Alike

No Approval

“Open Source”

LGPL

Microsoft Reciprocol License

GPL

Redistrib

ution

View Source

Attributio

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CreativeCommons BY-NC-ND

BSD

CreativeCommons BY-NC-SA

Public Domain

If you want more

Check out:beaconfire.com/freesoftware

Or find us at:The Beacon Lounge

(across the hall)