2. “OpenOffice,Open Business” is created by imacat (Yang Shih-Ching),
and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
3. imacat
● A member of the Apache OpenOffice Project
Management Committee
● An OpenOffice committer
● The system administrator of the OpenOffice
forum and Wiki
● A member of Women in Free and Open
Source Software
● A graduate student from National Taiwan
Normal University
5. What Do You Do
with Open Source?
● Using open source programs/systems?
6. What Do You Do
with Open Source?
● Using open source programs/systems
● Programming with open source
programming languages or environments?
7. What Do You Do
with Open Source?
● Using open source programs/systems
● Programming with open source
programming languages or environments
● Hacking and modifying open source projects
for your own use?
8. What Do You Do
with Open Source?
● Using open source programs/systems
● Programming with open source
programming languages or environments
● Hacking and modifying open source projects
for your own use
● Attending community events and
conferences?
9. What Do You Do
with Open Source?
● Using open source programs/systems
● Programming with open source
programming languages or environments
● Hacking and modifying open source projects
for your own use
● Attending community events and
conferences
● Filing bugs, submitting patches and joining
the upstream discussion?
11. What Do Business Do
with Open Source?
● Programming with open source
programming languages or environments?
12. What Do Business Do
with Open Source?
● Programming with open source
programming languages or environments
● Using, hacking and modifying open source
projects/systems for their own use?
14. What Do Business Do
with Open Source?
● Programming with open source
programming languages or environments
● Using, hacking and modifying open source
projects/systems for their own use?
● (And then?)
16. This is how we work
in Apache Software Foundation
17. Open Source Business
Community in Apache
● In Apache Software
Foundation, we
build open source
communities like
this:
Apache Software
Foundation Projects
Apache Software
Foundation Projects
Business CommunityBusiness Community
CompanyCompanyCompanyCompany
CompanyCompany CompanyCompany
End UsersEnd Users
18. Open Source Business
Community in Apache
● ASF projects are the infrastructures of
business, and they are rolling money.
– Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, SpamAssassin
19. Open Source Business
Community in Apache
● ASF projects are the infrastructures of
business, and they are rolling money.
– Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, SpamAssassin
● Business companies sponsor ASF in many
ways:
– Money, development, hardware, and more.
20. Open Source Business
Community in Apache
● ASF projects are the infrastructures of
business, and they are rolling money.
– Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, SpamAssassin
● Business companies sponsor ASF in many
ways:
– Money, development, hardware, and more.
● ASF returns with quality software projects
that roll money for the business.
21. Open Source Business
Community in Apache
● It works like this:
– Business companies
sponsor ASF with
money,
development, and
more.
– ASF returns with
quality software
projects that roll
money for these
companies.
Apache Software
Foundation Projects
Apache Software
Foundation Projects
Business CommunityBusiness Community
CompanyCompanyCompanyCompany CompanyCompany CompanyCompany
Quality
Software
Infrastructure
Quality
Software
Infrastructure
Sponsoring:
Money,
development,
and more
Sponsoring:
Money,
development,
and more
23. Key Issues to an Open Source
Business Community
● Meritocracy
– Everyone can join in as long as she/he
contributes.
24. Key Issues to an Open Source
Business Community
● Meritocracy
– Everyone can join in as long as she/he
contributes.
● Non-Affiliation
– Software projects are not affiliated with any of
the sponsors.
25. Key Issues to an Open Source
Business Community
● Meritocracy
– Everyone can join in as long as she/he
contributes.
● Non-Affiliation
– Software projects are not affiliated with any of
the sponsors.
● Transparency
– Everything goes public. No hidden affiliation.
35. Volunteer Developers’
Spare Time…
● Overnight after work
● Weekends
● Holidays
● …
● The time after work when they are supposed
to stay with their family, children, husbands
and wives
36. Volunteer Developers’
Spare Time…
● Overnight after work
● Weekends
● Holidays
● …
● The time after work when they are supposed
to stay with their family, children, husbands
and wives
– … when you, as an end-user, are staying at
home watching TV
44. Benefits to Sponsor OSS Projects
● Join it and get a vote
● Prevent competitors from project affiliation
45. Benefits to Sponsor OSS Projects
● Join it and get a vote
● Prevent competitors from project affiliation
● Fix the bugs from the upstream once and for
all
46. Benefits to Sponsor OSS Projects
● Join it and get a vote
● Prevent competitors from project affiliation
● Fix the bugs from the upstream once and for
all
● Get credits for your contribution
48. Benefits to Sponsor OSS Projects
● Join it and get a vote
● Prevent competitors from project affiliation
● Fix the bugs from the upstream once and for
all
● Get credits for your contribution
● Help make quality projects, and these
projects will reward you nicely!