SpringOne Platform 2016 Speaker: Sam Ramji; Chief Executive Officer, Cloud Foundry Foundation Sam Ramji, CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, talks about the state of Cloud Foundry, love as open source, and how organizations and people can benefit from developing in the open.

1. Zen and the Art of Platform
Sam Ramji
@sramji

3. Open source is a positive-sum game

4. 4

5. The history of civilization is a history of
positive-sum games played at larger and
larger scales.
Robert Wright, Nonzero

6. How many people can I call “self”
instead of “other”?

7. self = family

8. Google Search

9. self = tribe

10. self = chiefdom

11. self = city-state

12. self = nation-state

13. Tribe
Chiefdom
City-State
Nation-State
Family

14. self = company

15. Partnership
LLC
Corporation
Multinational
Sole proprietor

16. self = project

17. developers
business
users
operators

20. Platforms are positive-sum games

21. Solutions
Services
Products
Platform
Users

22. The more people we can support,
the greater the platform

23. Platforms drive network effects

25. The more people we can include,
the greater the network effects

26. developers
business
users
operators

27. Packaged Apps
Packaged Services

28. 2300+ patches
2100+ contributors
130+ core committers
25+ releases

29. 2300+ patches
2100+ contributors
130+ core committers
25+ releases
AWS, GCP, Azure
vSphere, OpenStack
SoftLayer, RackHD

30. 63 member companies
173 user groups
33,400+ individual members
105 cities
48 countries

31. We see a world of cloud computing that is
UBIQUITOUS and FLEXIBLE
supporting multi-cloud application environments.
PORTABLE and INTEROPERABLE
enabling users to move their applications wherever they need to go.
VIBRANT and GROWING
underlying a massive ecosystem of applications and services.

32. We see a human community that is
PRAGMATIC
and focused on exchanging practical experience.
DIVERSE
and inclusive of people across race, gender, orientation, and lifestyle.
RESPECTFUL
and committed to listening to thoughtful and honest perspectives.