This document discusses strategies for making free and open source software profitable, including: - Earning money through customization services, support contracts, documentation/training, and paid plugins/versions while the core software remains free. - Gaining funding from organizations, donations, ads, university partnerships, and corporate customers interested in the software. - Releasing often with detailed changelogs and high quality documentation to build a user base and gain feedback to improve the software.

1. Profitable Free Software Vitor Pamplona

2. Free Software Freedom

3. Free Software Freedom To Use

4. Free Software Freedom To Use To Study

5. Free Software Freedom To Use To Study To Change

6. Free Software Freedom To Use To Study To Change To Distribute

7. Free Software Environment Recurse!

8. Free Software is cool but where is my money? ... profit? ... I need food to live! ... not sustainable

9. Rewards for Players For Companies Low-cost goodies Market evaluation and campains Easy of training and incentives for schools Creation of standards Easy to widespread and grow its use Motivational skills for the best developers Modularization culture Quality assessment Competition annihilation

10. Rewards for Players For Developers Hobby and fun Networking for hackers Curriculum improvement Responsibility assessment Knowledge of the whole development cycle Leadership development and evaluation Community knowledge for hiring Talks :)

11. Open Source is cool and it helps you to make money ... it is profitable ... it is fun ... it is sustainable

12. Open Source vs Free Software Open does not mean freedom Focus on Business Focus on People

13. Open Source vs Free Software Capitalist Communist

14. Open Source vs Free Software Guaranteed on Free Software Only

15. Project Roadmap

16. Capture an Idea Use linux to know how people work Homeworks/Your Needs Crazyness/absurds Keep it simple, fast and VERY small It’s OK to copy You don’t like something? Create it again Forget about competitors Fork and Improve

17. How to Compute Ideas X + Y X neXt Xd X X ++ X

18. How to Compute Ideas X + Y X Display 3D Xd X X ++ X

19. How to Compute Ideas NETRA CATRA Marketing, Sports Games, Movies Medicine Display 3D Display 1D? Sound 3D Smell 3D Touch 3D Displays 4D? Multi-focal Displays Holograms Projector-based 3D Wave Optics Ray Optics Glasses-Free Context-Aware User-Sensible

20. How to Compute Ideas X + Y X Touch Screen Xd X X ++ X

21. How to Compute Ideas Broken Bone Detector Mice Tracking Fingerprint Wind Screen? Touch Screen Sensing + Displaying Weight Untouch screen Touch unscreen Capacitive Resistive Biological Multi-touch Ultrafast Low bandwidth

22. Ownership VS Licensing Public Domain Royalty-Free Microsoft Reference License Copyleft Share Alike Copyright Holder LGPL Shared Sources BSD GPL Creative Commons Apache

23. Creative Commons

24. Open Source License Comparison Open Source Free Software

25. Prove it: Demo or DIE An idea alone is worthless Everybody has good ideas Implementation matters! Interface matters Social network matters Spreading matters Easy live demos, videos, screencasts, blogs, twitter Code snippets, documentation, tutorials Business pitches, fund raising, foundation grants

26. A Little Secret on Starting Code Github Friends

27. Project Check-list Project page Documentation / User Manual Installation Notes License Repository / Version control SourceForge GitHub Feedback Page Wiki Discussion Group / Forum News Channel Blog - Best Twitter

28. Project Page Anatomy Goals Future of the project? What expect from it? Features and flaws Be sincere TO-DO List & Contribution Keep always updated Download Documentation Installation Notes Use Uninstall Snapshots and Screencasts

29. Quality-Based Software Make sure you are doing the best Minimum bugs, beautiful code Test driven development helps a LOT Unit test, Unit test, Unit test!! Feel free to release many beta versions Make nice videos and screencasts Believe me, you need them

30. Releasing and Feedback On releasing a version: Binary code and instructions Source code and instructions Detailed change-log and high-level news item Make packaging: .deb, .rpm and .yum Ask friends to test the software and instructions Be kind People will make critics. Don’t go ofensive. Good documentation and fast feedback action

31. Language and Internacionalization Source code: Always in english. Translate everything! Webpage: Start in portuguese. Make a first draft for an engligh website Other people can review it. Learn how to i18n of your environment Translation is the MAIN source of collaboration

32. Open Source Funding Saving time and money ONGs are usually awesome Allow donation Vakinha, Paypal, and others Adsense University partnerships They can provide servers and infrastructure Search for incubators Focus on corporate market. Who can get a lot of money from your software?

33. Open Source-based Company Your own company Customization services and support Documentation and training Warranty Plugins or paid improved version Award the best commiters Talks, talks and talks Pay for the best commiters go present Reward plan and gifts

34. Project Discontinued Projects die. Accept that. Let other people continue your work Keep the code on-line People can fork it Or learn from your mistakes Publish! People are relying on you, they need to know