A discussion around lessons learned in making distributed open source software products. Highlighting the intersection of value creation and adoption as key balance to strike for cultivating success for users and (software) creators.
2. About Me
• Co-founder, Placester
• Creator, W3 Total Cache
• Founder, W3 MARKUP
• Founder, W3 EDGE
• Founding CTO, Mashable
3. The Mantra
No one ever succeeds without the help of
others.
- Jay Abraham
4. Value Creation
Try not to become a man of success but rather
a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
5. User Expectations
Customers can't always tell you what they
want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.
- Carly Fiona
6. User Experience
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made
creation that ends up expressing itself in
successive outer layers of the product or
service.
- Steve Jobs