The document summarizes an Open World Forum event about catalyzing open source software community innovation. It discusses how 95% of organizations will use open source software by 2016 and the influence of community development. It outlines challenges in discovery, analysis, and compliance for open source projects and some solutions. It also discusses the need to better involve communities in solutions and collaboration models between projects and community forges. A beta of the Markos solution is coming to help address these issues.

1. Open World Forum 2013: Community Summit
catalyzing the discovery, analysis and adoption of
OSS community-based innovation
Jim Ahtes
October 4th, 2013  Paris

2. OSS mainstream impact
95%
By 2016, 95% of IT organizations will leverage open-source
software in their mission-critical IT portfolios.
Gartner, 2012
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3. OSS influence on development
community development
coming back strong!
Source: The 451 Group, 2010
it’s already part of our workflow,
can we help make that better?
survey of 500+ IT leaders about the code in their deployed software
Source: Gartner, 2011 via Black Duck
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4. challenges in the OSS opportunity
so many communities, so many projects, so much opportunity...
compliance
analysis
challenges
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discovery
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5. a few solutions for search & compliance…
Developers
Projects
Community
Forge
Projects
Community
Forge
Projects
Community
Forge
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6. …but innovations for community development?
• filtered search across forges using expressive queries describing the
desired code and basic attributes like entity types (class, interface,
library…), names, licenses, keywords or complex queries involving
relationship among different entities (inheritance relationships,
dependencies, containments…)
• advanced browsing using a logical representation of the source
code, independent of programming language, and lets one easily
browse the content of multiple projects through their related
entities
• license analysis to find out possible violations on published
software, explain the conflict and suggest compatible open source
licenses to apply
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7. markos under the hood
important for today’s session:
how can we better involve these
communities in our solution?
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8. collaboration models with community forges?
Developers
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markos is an
added channel,
not a replacement!
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value that markos
can push back to
forges?
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implementation
on forge end?
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inter-forge
collaboration?
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Projects
Community
Forge
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Projects
Community
Forge
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Projects
Community
Forge

9. Beta coming soon!
Give it a test drive, tell us what you think, and
help us further shape the concept and features of markos!
(don’t worry, you won’t be a bug tester!)
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10. thank you for your attention!
slide references
questions?
partners
Gartner: “Drivers and Incentives for the Wide
Adoption of Open-Source Software,” 2012
The 451 Group: “Control & Community: The Evolution
of Open-Source-Related Business Strategies,” 2010
FP7 project facts
contact info
duration: 30 Months
October 2012 – March 2015
coordinator: Fraunhofer FOKUS
Jim Ahtes
technical lead: Engineering
james.ahtes (at) atos.net
www.markosproject.eu
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