How to start an open source project slides-dec2016
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My Personal and shared experience about starting an open source project based on the book of Karl Fogel. Focus on how to get involved with open source communities. History of open source.
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- 1. 1 Dirk Frigne 6 December 2016 Praktijkervaring rond het opzetten, onderhouden en uitrollen van open source
- 2. Doel •Inzicht verwerven in de wereld van open source •Helicopter overzicht van de wereld van de geospatial Open source: “OSGeo” •Inzicht verwerven in de dynamica van open source community's
- 3. Producing Open Source Software How to Run a Successful Free Software Project Karl Fogel http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.pdf At parties, people no longer give me a blank stare when I tell them I write free software. "Oh, yes, open source—like Linux?" they say. I nod eagerly in agreement. "Yes, exactly! That's what I do." It's nice not to be completely fringe anymore. In the past, the next question was usually fairly predictable: "How do you make money doing that?" To answer, I'd summarize the economics of open source: that there are or- ganizations in whose interest it is to have certain software exist, but that they don't need to sell copies, they just want to make sure the software is available and maintained, as a tool instead of as a commodity
- 4. 07/12/16 4uGent Some more context ...
- 5. 07/12/16 5uGent Just my2c ...
- 6. 07/12/16 6uGent Dirk Frigne introduced class-D mono amplifier with a low-pass filter for powering subwoofers ir. “electrotechnisch ingenieur, zwakstroom” - 1986
- 7. 07/12/16 7uGent from Software Engineering Agile Scrum Iterations Engineering >30 year professional experience As Software Developer Reading books, on the job training
- 8. 07/12/16 8uGent Bespoke Software - 1993 ● DFC Software Engineering founded ● Graphical Software – technical software solutions – Using commercial CAD platforms to develop user Interfaces to transform for the creation of graphical documentation – Clients: utility companies Gas/Water/Electricity/Telecom – Projects: typical 2 – 5 years – Team: typical 2- 7 person – 2002: evolution to the use of open source libraries – Hires: engineers, IT-experts – Train on the Job.
- 9. 07/12/16 9uGent Geosparc Founded - 2008 ● Focus on open source ● Focus on Spatial Data Infrastructures ● Transformation from project company to platform company ● 2013: decision to transform to product company ● 2016: spotbooking, product to manage the usage of the public domain
- 10. 07/12/16 10uGent to geo-it FOSS¹ expert Dirk Frigne receives the INSPIRE conference award Dirk Frigne becomes Vice President of OSGeo² The second Vice-President, from Europe, is Dirk Frigne. Dirk is an entrepreneur serving OSGeo as Charter Member and member of geomajas PSC. He is involved in the INSPIRE Committee and received the Award for excellence in geo- information technologies. 31 Januari 2016 2015 – Lisbon INSPIRE Conference [1] FOSS: Free Open Source Software [2] OSGeo: Open Source Geospatial Foundation [3] IOF: Industry Research & Development Fund Januari 2014 Dirk Frigne joins the board of the IOF³ Ghent University
- 11. 07/12/16 11uGent Field of expertise What is the GI S&T domain?(*) (*) Slide Gi-N2K project
- 12. 07/12/16 12uGent Field of expertise What is the GI S&T domain?(*) (*) Slide Gi-N2K project
- 13. 07/12/16 13uGent Geomajas - Platform OSGeo project to facilitate the build of Spatial Data Infrastructure’s Started in 2006 Kul – DFC Software Engineering – Flemish environmental department JAVA based
- 21. 07/12/16 21uGent Products InspireGIS ¹ Eurostars project 2016 - 2018 Geosparc Epsilon Wetransform [1] http://www.geosparc.com/news/new-inspire-gis-first-full-and-easy-use-gis-solution-inspire Title:eurostars_eureka_eu_logos-partic Creator:Adobe Illustrator(R) 18.1 CreationDate:16/06/15 LanguageLevel:2
- 22. OSGeo Live Demo
- 23. History of OSS ( 1980)
- 24. 1986
- 25. History of OSS ( 1980) 1980: source code of laser printer missing Xerox 9700
- 26. GNU General Public License (GPL) Tools: - Emacs - GCC + first operating system - Linux (Linus Torvalds) - X Windows System Richard Stallman
- 28. Other initiatives - Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) AT&T – loosley proprietary research project (late 1970) - X Window System (MIT) (mid 1980) - Tex (free, publishing-quality typesetting system)
- 29. Free vs Open Free as in the “freedom to speech”, not as in “free beer” Motivation: software becomes more and more important; more and more systems and lives depend on it; so it should be free (and open)
- 30. Getting started The cathedral and the bazaar http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
- 31. Basic principles Identify a need Develop a software prototype Build a community Set an ecosystem, with – Users – Developers – Architects – Service providers All working together and playing by the rules Look and feel matters! *New Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
- 32. Don't reinvent the wheel
- 33. Don't reinvent the wheel
- 34. What next? Transforming private vision into a public one Mission statement: “Geomajas is the open source platform to create Web GIS applications”
- 35. Explain the project “integrate data real time from several sources into one easy to deploy map in a way the users can understand the information presented and can act upon the data as if it where real world objects”
- 36. What next? Set up technical environment Website Github Mailing list Developer Guidelines Demo's, screenshots, …
- 37. Choosing a license Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Redistributie toegelaten, zowel in broncode als binair. Copyright & Disclaimer verplicht Je mag geen gebruik maken van de namen van de universiteit van California, Berkeley noch van de contributors om de software te promoten.
- 38. Choosing a license GNU General Public (GPL) license: “Copyleft” - licentie Recht om het werk te wijzigen, afgeleide werken te wijzigen en/of te herdistribueren Onmogelijk om het afgeleid werk voorwaarden op te leggen die de vrijheid beperken.
- 39. Be open Open source your code... … not your time Be authentic … Avoid private discussions Explain why you decide things... Contribute to other communities
- 40. Version Control Git... … branch Pull request … & commit user branches into the Master branch
- 41. Social and Political Infrastructure Succesful projects: ● Technical quality ● Health ● New bug reports, new developers ● Fun ● Survivability ● Independent from individual sponsor
- 42. Working together (co-creation) Forkability of a project ● The 'force' of an open source project ● Binding communities together Project organisation ● Benevolent Dictator ● Consensus-based Democracy ● Voting (+1 +0 -0 -1)
- 43. Working together Be as open about your organization's goals as you can without compromising business secrets Business goals differ with every project Ex: Google / Facebook / university / SME / freelancer / employee / government
- 44. Money •Most free software is written by paid developers •Financial backing is good for the sustainability •Can also divide a project in two groups! •Respect non paid contributions! •Money influences the project, so does adding time. •All OSS is commercial software
- 45. What money can't buy Commit rights Participating in the decision process Get respect in the community
- 46. Why OSS is fun
- 47. Why OSS is fun
- 48. Why OSS is fun
- 49. Why geosparc sponsors Marketing To be able to create more impact To differentiate and to attract new people Hire for the Long Term People are important! Everybody 'owns' the project
- 50. Managing (paid) volunteers The real scarce resources: - know how - commit rights - community connections
- 51. Why should you be involved?
- 52. Communications You are what you write Write terse mails Don't be rude Use your real name Activity on the mailing list … Be authentic
- 53. 55 Quote "Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind." — Dee Hock, founder of Visa.
- 54. OSGeo Live Demo
- 55. 57 Q&A Thank you very much! Questions? www.geosparc.com www.geomajas.org
Editor's Notes
- Milestone 1980 Before 1980: Sharing was common use - Hardware was not compatible (no standards) - There was no internet – sharing was not simple Pre 1980: Hardware was a differentiator Machine depended (Assembler) No high level programming languages Sharing software was common practice Software became USP Software became ‘protected
- IBM approached Microsoft in July 1980 to provide the operating system for its upcoming personal computer. For this deal, Microsoft bought a system called 86-DOS from a company called Seattle Computer Products and, after adapting it for the PC, delivered it to IBM as 'PC DOS' in exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000.
- Milestone 1980 Richard Stallman worked in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and early '80s - In 1980, Stallman and some other hackers at the AI Lab were refused access to the source code for the software of a newly installed laser printer, the Xerox 9700. Stallman had modified the software for the Lab's previous laser printer (the XGP, Xerographic Printer), so it electronically messaged a user when the person's job was printed, and would message all logged-in users waiting for print jobs if the printer was jammed. Not being able to add these features to the new printer was a major inconvenience, as the printer was on a different floor from most of the users. This experience convinced Stallman of people's need to be able to freely modify the software they use Stallman wrote: The modern computers of the era, such as the VAX or the 68020, had their own oper- ating systems, but none of them were free software: you had to sign a nondisclosure agreement even to get an executable copy. This meant that the first step in using a computer was to promise not to help your neighbor. A cooperating community was forbidden. The rule made by the owners of proprietary software was, "If you share with your neighbor, you are a pirate. If you want any changes, beg us to make them."
- Biggest accomplishment: GNU licence GNU General Public License (GPL) In effect, it uses copyright law to achieve an effect opposite to that of traditional copyright: instead of limiting the software's distribution, it prevents Anyone , even the author, from limiting distribution. For Stallman, this was better than simply putting his code into the public domain. If it were in the public domain, any particular copy of it could be incorporated into a proprietary program (as also sometimes happens to code under permissive open source copyright licenses) Tools: - Emacs - GCC + first operating system - Linux (Linus Torvalds) - X Windows System.
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- Motivation: the pleasure of working with like-minded collaborators, or even by a simple human desire for glory. Software must run: common interest to work together … + high quality code as a result - it was just better code. Businesses are already using open source software in day2day operations.
- Browser war: Netscape vs Microsoft internet explorer (1990) This was a first war for data-sharing?
- GPL: het gebruik maken van de copyright wetgeving om copyright te voorkomen.
- Ref OSGeo discussion – Rasdaman (Raster Data manager) Voting: +1 +0 -0 -1
- Even as a sponsor, obey the rules! Be authentic Explain Why Commit rights Participating in the decision process Get respect in the community You are being watched!
- Work together with others! (& learn to work together) Share idea's and meet interesting people Help people and get help when needed Respect and get respect for what you do Pizza & Beer & Conferences
- Work together with others! (& learn to work together) Share idea's and meet interesting people Help people and get help when needed Respect and get respect for what you do Pizza & Beer & Conferences
- Work together with others! (& learn to work together) Share idea's and meet interesting people Help people and get help when needed Respect and get respect for what you do Pizza & Beer & Conferences
- Marketing Dual – licensing To be able to create more impact To differentiate and to attract new people Hire for the Long Term People are important! Everybody 'owns' the project
- Take ownership of your project Meet interesting people Co-create Be part of the community