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Identifying Successful Open Source Projects
Manage episode 426376320 series 2285741
As open source companies and projects enter a transition phase of funding, licensing, community participation, let’s look at the characteristics of successful open source projects.
SHOW: 834
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #834 Transcript
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SHOW NOTES:
WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN IN OPEN SOURCE?
- There are 1000s of widely used open source projects, from Linux to Java to MySQL to Docker to Kubernetes to MongoDB
- Less projects are successful from a monetization perspective, but that’s about individual business models
- Plenty of companies during the 2010s-2020s treated open source as “marketing” and not really a development model
WHAT DOES COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN OPEN SOURCE?
- Wide usage infrastructure - Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack
- Complex projects vs. “it just works”
- Critical security - Vault
- Complex data services - MongoDB, Kafka
- Many companies contributing (share the costs) - Linux, Kubernetes
- Management / Observability Engines - Crossplane, Prometheus
- Programming Languages - Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.
- Cloud services hiding complexity
- Cloud services stretching across clouds
- Single vendor projects - often move to non-OSS licensing
- Single vendor projects - difficult to maintain at scale
FEEDBACK?
- Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
- Twitter: @cloudcastpod
- Instagram: @cloudcastpod
- TikTok: @cloudcastpod
Chapters
1. Identifying Successful Open Source Projects (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Out-of-the-box insights from digital leaders (00:24:33)
3. (Cont.) Identifying Successful Open Source Projects (00:25:11)
887 episodes
Manage episode 426376320 series 2285741
As open source companies and projects enter a transition phase of funding, licensing, community participation, let’s look at the characteristics of successful open source projects.
SHOW: 834
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #834 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW SPONSOR:
SHOW NOTES:
WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN IN OPEN SOURCE?
- There are 1000s of widely used open source projects, from Linux to Java to MySQL to Docker to Kubernetes to MongoDB
- Less projects are successful from a monetization perspective, but that’s about individual business models
- Plenty of companies during the 2010s-2020s treated open source as “marketing” and not really a development model
WHAT DOES COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN OPEN SOURCE?
- Wide usage infrastructure - Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack
- Complex projects vs. “it just works”
- Critical security - Vault
- Complex data services - MongoDB, Kafka
- Many companies contributing (share the costs) - Linux, Kubernetes
- Management / Observability Engines - Crossplane, Prometheus
- Programming Languages - Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.
- Cloud services hiding complexity
- Cloud services stretching across clouds
- Single vendor projects - often move to non-OSS licensing
- Single vendor projects - difficult to maintain at scale
FEEDBACK?
- Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
- Twitter: @cloudcastpod
- Instagram: @cloudcastpod
- TikTok: @cloudcastpod
Chapters
1. Identifying Successful Open Source Projects (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Out-of-the-box insights from digital leaders (00:24:33)
3. (Cont.) Identifying Successful Open Source Projects (00:25:11)
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