Panel Open Source Community & Business Development 17.10.2016 Mindtrek 2016 #mindtrek16 #panel
Panel Open Source Community &
Business Development
17.10.2016Mindtrek 2016
#mindtrek16 #panel
Panelists
• Carlo Daffara, CTO of CloudWeavers and researcher on IT economics
• Matti Pesu, Chair of the Oskari-network, Senior inspector in the Finnish Transport Agency
• Vesa-Matti Hartikainen, Program Manager, Jolla Oy
• Martin von Willebrand, Chairman of COSS ry, Validos ry and Attorney at HH Partners
• Building an open source community as a platform for, enabler or booster of business. Or building business as a booster of community?
• How to build a community the right way, and what not to do? What are the positives and negatives?
• What type of monetization is positive/negative for the community?
• Licensing options and open core, dual licensing and delayed open licenses.
• Intros and viewpoints• In building community what have you achieved, how?• What have found out that did not work?• Leadership question: role of objectives in the start?• Monetization: how do you make money? What
monetization supports the community, what works against it? – Is it ok, if it works against the community, but not too much
• Role of defining/finding the competitive advantage?• Licensing can be used to create scarcity, does it work,
when?– It surely works for some proprietary companies