The Plone Intranet Consortium is pioneering a new business model for open source development. Presentation at Ploneconf 2014 Bristol by Guido Stevens introducing Quaive.
6. Consultant-ware is bad business
● High initial cost
● Low quality user
experience
● Crappy sales proposition
● Slow delivery
● High maintenance cost
● Low community synergy
10. Evolve or Die
Web 1.0 →
● publish + read
● content management
● document tree
● place-centric
● global state
● top-down control
Plone Core
Web 2.0 →
● read/write
● social networking
● activity stream
● time-centric
● personal perspectives
● bottom-up sharing
Plone Social
Web 3.0
● big data
● semantic web
● digital workplace
● meaning-centric
● context adaptive
● machine learning
__future__
17. Invest in high-quality out-of-the-box
product baseline
● Low purchase cost
● Very high quality
● Immediate sales appeal
● Fast delivery
● Shared maintenance
● New community ethos
… and then sell client services
22. Consortium board funds roadmap
Per company:
● € 1000 per month
● + 1 developer day per week
Total phase one (3 months):
● € 24.000 cash
design
● 80 man-days development
sprint every Wednesday
24. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
● These are add-ons
● Plone 5 compatible
● 100% open source
● Welcome to join the
consortium
● NOT a core fork
● Will port to Mockup
● NOT a €€€ conspiracy
● But requires money, time,
process commitment