My presentation at Monktoberfest 2013 in Portland, Maine.

1. The Quick and the Dead:
Open Source Foundations in the Age of Kingmakers
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
Eclipse Foundation
@mmilinkov
Monktoberfest
4-Oct-2013

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4. A Changing World
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5. If your continued employment depends not
just on the quality of the software you
employ, then, but perceptions of the quality of
the software you employ, the halo effect
offered by foundations that actively triage
their assets is likely to be of benefit.
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6. If your continued employment depends not
just on the quality of the software you
employ, then, but perceptions of the quality of
the software you employ, the halo effect
offered by foundations that actively triage
their assets is likely to be of benefit.
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7. <Sigh>
• Governance
• IP Management, licensing, license compatibility
• Project infrastructure and forge (e.g. git)
• Project lifecycle
• Predictability
• Community oversight, norms, mores, culture
• Scale
• Sustainability
• Vendor neutrality
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8. Tackling Big Problems
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Small Technology,
Small teams
Bigger problems,
Single vendor
Platforms,
ecosystems,
Communities
Multi-vendor

9. ©AIRBUSFRANCES.A.S.Tousdroitsréservés.Documentconfidentiel.
Open Source Day SIEMENS-VDO 27th September 2006 page 9
Our constraints
One example : AIRBUS A300
• Program began in 1972 and
will stop in 2007
2007-1972 = 35 years...
• Support will last until 2050
2050-1972 = 78 years !!!
On board software development for very long lifecycle
products

10. Software Embedded on Airbus Aircraft
0,004 0,023 2
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11. The Internet of Things
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14. Internet
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16. Things
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17. Eclipse M2M/IoT
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18. Regulatory Capture
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19. Telcos Meet Developers
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Picture credit: commons.wikimedia.org

20. We All Know That Open Wins
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21. Open Source Bullshit
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“Governance does not suck.”
Jono Bacon

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24. It’s not about you
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25. So what are we changing
at Eclipse?
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27. Technology Agnostic
• Definition of an Eclipse Project:
– The project will conform to the Eclipse Development
Process
– The project will conform to the Eclipse Intellectual
Property Policies and its related procedures
– The project will be licensed under the Eclipse Public
License unless otherwise and unanimously approved by
the Board.
• There is no requirement that Eclipse projects must utilize the
Java language or OSGi modularity (plug-in) model.
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Common Build Infrastructure (CBI)

29. The Project Lifecycle
Diet
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30. Long Term Support
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32. Thank You!
Questions?
mike@eclipse.org
@mmilinkov
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33. Credits
• Open Web - W3C Technical Architecture Group
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/IAB_Prague_2011_slides.html
• Internet of Things image by Erik Wilde, University of Berkeley
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/blog/internet-of-things
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