This document discusses why robotics needs open source communities. It provides examples of how open source communities helped Bosch and MQTT gain visibility and recognition. Being an open source citizen means feeding, respecting, embracing, and engaging your community. Open source foundations like Eclipse can help by providing infrastructure, governance, and community development support. The Eclipse Foundation is launching an industrial robotics working group to further this area.

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Why Robotics needs
Open Source Communities
Philippe Krief, PhD
Director, Research Relations
ROS industrial,
December 12, 2019

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Story #1: Bosch
Why would you need
Open Source Communities?

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2015: Bosch becomes
Eclipse Strategic Member
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Adoption of Open Source practices

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“No company can realize the IoT on its own… Within the
Eclipse Community, through the contribution of many
IoT developers, tools and standards are created on an
open platform that many companies can benefit from
for their IoT applications.”
Stefan Ferber, CEO, Bosch Software Innovations

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450
IoT platforms in 2018

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https://www.slideshare.net/appstacle/open-source-as-a-business-opportunity

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Lesson learned #1
Why would you need Open Source
Communities?
Because an Open Source community is a
way to become competitive against
bigger fish

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Story #2: MQTT
Why would you need
Open Source Communities?

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By Simon A. Eugster - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
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Invented
by IBM and Arcom
back in 1999

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MQTT Google Trend
The Open Source
Community
Made the Standard

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Lesson learned #2
Why would you need Open Source
Communities?
Because an Open Source community is
a great vehicle to gain visibility and
recognition

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Governance & Best Practices
Why would you need
Open Source Communities?

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Transparency Openness Meritocracy

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Who is using OSS
in his products ? 80-90%
According to Forrester & Gartner
https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/801412

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Who is a Good
Open Source Citizen?
By JacLou DL, CC0 Creative Commons,
https://pixabay.com/photo-2645966/

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F.R.E.E.
What is the trade-off?

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Flike Feedyour Community
● Create Getting Started
● Complete Documentation
● Use Social Media

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Rlike Respectyour Community
“Every bug report is a love letter”
Erich Gamma

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E like Embrassyour Community
● Go to conferences,
● Organise local events,
● Interact with User groups
● Meet other communities

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Elike Engageyour Community
Organise
● Workshops
● Webinars
● Hackathons
● Challenges / Contests

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Open Source Foundations
Who can help?

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Publishing is NOT
the Open Source
Silver Bullet

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260
350
10
280+
Corporate Members
360+
Projects
1500+
Committers
30
Professional Staff

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260
350
10
2M+
Unique Visitors / m
1.5M+
Downloads / m
5M+
Active Users
360K
Newsletter subscribers

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Eclipse Foundation Strategic Focus Areas
Cloud Native Java Eclipse in Motion
openMobility
openADx
openGENESIS
Eclipse Foundation
InfrastructureIP Management &
Licensing
Governance &
Process
Community
Development
ToolsEclipse IoT
Industrial IoT
Edge Computing
IoT Cloud Platform
https://eclipse.org/workinggroups

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is launching an
Industrial Robotics Working Group
in collaboration with:
For more information, please contact:
➢ Gael.Blondelle@eclipse-foundation.org
➢ Marco.Jahn@eclipse-foundation.org

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Kind Reminder!
Open Source
is a Journey,
not a destination

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Philippe Krief
philippe.krief@eclipse-foundation.org
Community
Thanks!