This is the final draft of section one of the tutorial. Of course, I need to practice the timing to see where each 30 minute section takes.

1. How to organize and
fund free culture
projects
Kevin Shockey
Founder, Mis Tribus

2. What?
Free culture projects often fail
due to a lack of resources.

3. So What?
By focusing on raising funds,
a project can increase its' chances
of survival

4. Why m e?
Computer Science, Math,
Financials, and Software Development

5. Why now?
 Declining interest in FLOSS
 Lingering confusion surrounding free software
 Lack of unity, more division
 Cloud computing and proprietary platforms, like iOS, are:
- Reducing awareness of FLOSS foundations
- Reducing interest with a superior user experience

6. O'Reilly Hom e Page (06/ 16/ 2012)

7. Disclaimer
Some of this class
Is based on theories
I'm currently researching
And using

8. Tutorial as a Startup
 Financing Freedom - “How to organize and fund free culture projects”
- Slides
- Handout
- eBook
 Supporting Materials
- Background
- Data
- Illustrations (Graphs)
- Vision for Maximum Strategy
 Community

9. So far...Startup Progress
 Funding Free Culture:
- Blog: news.financingfreedom.com
- Homepage: www.financingfreedom.com
- @_ff12
- Tumblr: FundingFreeCulture.Tumblr.com
 One Blogger post triggers:
- 3 Automated tweets on 3 different accounts
- Twitter
- Linked In
- Financing Freedom Page on Facebook

10. Assum ptions
 Free Culture
 Project Execution
 Project Funding

11. Free Culture Assum ptions
 Free culture projects often fail
- Never shipping
- Unable to attract a community
 Division makes free culture weaker
- Contributors must choose
- Only able to sustain two or three projects

12. “Free” Assum ptions
 Ambiguiety between free and open source software
 In many cases there is a an unequal value transaction:
- Many use “free” software
- Few look for ways to give back to the community
- Volunteer
- Recommendations
- Donations
- Merchandise
- Services

13. State of FLOSS?
 Projects in emergent, growth, & maturity stages
 State is Mixed
- Enterprise recognition
- Limited user recognition/support
- Finances (resources) are limited (often to just one person)

14. Top 10 FLOSS Hall of Fam e
1. Linux Kernel
2. GNU Utilities & Compilers
3. Ubuntu
4. BSD
5. Samba
(Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers. (2009). http://mstrb.us/zjn6zK)

15. Top 10 FLOSS Hall of Fam e
6. MySQL
7. BIND
8. SendMail
9. OpenSSH & OpenSSL
10. Apache

16. Measuring FLOSS
 Through search, Google Trends
 Through search, Google Scholar
 Through investigation, Mining SourceForge.net Repository

17. Search is relative
 Search is a simulation;
- By measuring “reality” we affect reality
- It is a proxy,
- We humanely can not understand the math involved
- Artificial intelligence

18. What SEO Tells Us
 Many Thanks to Stephen O'Grady and his SEO research, which he shared: “The State of
Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline?”

19. General trends for mature projects - Linux

20. Apache

21. MySQL

22. PHP

23. Open Source

24. GPL

25. Em erging Technologies Dom inated by FLOSS – Linux
Cloud

26. NoSQL

27. Hadoop

28. Google Scholar Advanced Search
 Parameters
- “Open Source” exact phrase all in title
- “Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics” subject area
- Year to Year (eg; 2012 to 2012, 2011 to 2011, etc.)

29. Open Source Academic Papers by Year
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Direct Results
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100
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2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997

30. “Open Source” vs “Free Software” (since 1983)
900
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100 Free Software Results
Open Source Results
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2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983

31. Academ ic Paper Analysis
 Growth reversed in 2011, but 2012 will show new growth
 Free software has not been researched much
- Out-published by a margin of 5 to 1 by open source.

32. Academ ic Paper Questions
 Has research on “open source peaked?
 Why isn't anyone researching “free software?”
 Has “open source” obscured the importance of free software?

33. SourceForge Research Data Archive (SRDA)
 Many tables archived from February 2005 to present
 Data includes any churn in the number of active users, projects, messages, etc.
 Observations

34. Monthly additions of users is slowing down

35. User base is STILL growing
- Just over 3 million users

36. Sharp increase in the number of projects

37. Num ber of packages is also up.

38. Num ber of releases are down

39. Num ber of files are down.

40. Downloads are generally rising
- Extreme variances are unexplained

41. 3.6 Million in January 2009 *

42. Is GitHub Eating all of SourceForge's Candy?

43. SourceForge and GitHub Sm ackdown
 Three comparisons
- Number of Users
- Number of Academic Papers
- Number of Repositories
 Round One - Number of Users:
- SF (3 Million to 1.6 Million)
 Round Two – Academic papers
- SF (195 to 8)
 Round Three – Repositories
- No correlation for repositories

44. Project Ex ecution Assumptions
 Most projects end in failure
 A successful project organization has emerged
 FLOSS projects are similar to startups
 Execution is achieved through testing assumptions

45. Open Source Failure
 A project that is unable to grow a community beyond the founder.
 A project that fails to ship anything.
 Abandoned projects

46. Open Source Failure
 A project that is unable to grow a community beyond the founder.
 A project that fails to ship anything.
 Abandoned projects...when either of the 1 two conditions reoccurs
st

47. SourceForge Projects
 324,000 projects
 268,554 projects with only 1 developer (83%)
 44,446 “viable” projects (14%)

48. Developers Per Project

49. Open Source Success
 Constant and synchronous communication
 Consistency in methodological development approach
 Geographical dispersion management through an extensive testing culture
 FLOSSD experience in accepting and handling the environmental limitations

50. Critical Success Factors
 Obligatory use of project methodology
 An extensive testing culture (Lean Startup)
- Build Measure Learn or your competition will
 Irrelevance is your enemy
- Mastery of Internet and Social Media marketing
 Create, nuture, and manage a viable community

51. An Infinite Marketplace
 Thousands of new OSS projects every month
 Thousands of new apps on Android and Apple
 A hundred thousand new e-Books
 Millions of social media updates
- Photos
- Videos
- Blog entries

52. Irrelevance is Your Enem y