The document discusses open source licensing, governance, and community. It notes that open source provides benefits to hackers/developers in having impact and satisfaction, to companies in saving costs and flexibility, and to users in access and security. Open source relies on licenses that allow use, modification, and sharing of content with credit given. Governance involves merit-based contributions and consensus-building through mailing lists. Successful communities avoid toxic members and focus on inclusion.

1. Licensing, Governance, Community and more...
Jim Jagielski || @jimjag
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4. QuickTime™ and a
MPEG-4 Video decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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5. Why?
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6. Hackers/Developers
• Having a real impact in the development and
direction of IT
• Personal satisfaction: I wrote that!
• Sense of membership in a community
• Sense of accomplishment - very quick
turnaround times
• Developers and engineers love to tinker -
huge opportunity to do so
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7. Companies/Orgs
• Having a real impact in the development and
direction of IT
• Sense of membership in a community (most of the time)
• Save on expensive resources
• Ability to focus on what differentiates yourself
• Allows for nimbleness and agility
• Increased revenue and market share
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8. Users
• Access to the source code
• Avoid vendor lock-in (or worse!)
• Much better software
• Better security record (more eyes)
• Much more nimble development - frequent
releases
• Direct user input
• Open Standards
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9. Promises
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10. Let’s pretend
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11. Use
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12. Modify
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13. Share
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14. Licenses
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15. Give me Credit
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16. Give me Fixes
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17. Give me Everything
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18. Governance/Communit
y
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19. Walled Garden
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20. BDFL
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21. Meritocracy
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22. Community Building
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23. Use Email Lists
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24. Drive Consensus
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25. No Poisonous People
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26. Thanks
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