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Community catalysts value of open source
The document discusses the significance of open source software and its inherent freedoms, highlighting various case studies to illustrate the positive impact on customers and communities. It outlines the importance of engaging with open source projects for better software quality and encourages participation in the ecosystem. Additionally, it lists specific projects like Wildfly, Fedora, and OpenShift, providing links for community involvement.
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Community catalysts value of open source
- 2. COMMUNITY CATALYSTS: The Valueof Open Source Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Red Hat June 12, 2013
- 3. Agenda ● Open sourceand Red Hat ● The freedoms of open source ● The value to customers ● How to engage with open source projects
- 4. Open source isin our DNA Image credit: opensource.com
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- 8. What's in itfor Red Hat? Image credit: opensource.com just
- 9. What's in itfor our customers? Image credit: opensource.com
- 10. Recap: The freedoms ofopen source software
- 11. The Four Freedomsof Open Source ● Freedom to use ● Freedom to study ● Freedom to modify ● Freedom to share “First order” freedoms
- 12. Second order freedoms Thevalue for our customers Image credit: opensource.com
- 13. Creates diversity ofuse-cases
- 14. Case study: Linux ●Top mobile phone operating system ● Powers 98% of world's super computers ● Hugely popular embedded OS
- 15. Drives adoption Image credit:opensource.com
- 16. Adoption drives marketplace,standards Image credit: opensource.com
- 17. Case study: MozillaFirefox ● <5% market share at launch in 2001 ● Grew to ~25% market share by 2006 ● Led adoption of CSS, HTML4, HTML5 ● Drove updates to Internet Explorer, entry of Google into browser market ● Browser extensions improve experience for users
- 18. Case study: Deltacloud ●De facto reference implementation of CIMI standard ● Liberally licensed open source implementation encourages adoption
- 19. Engage early, stayagile Image credit: opensource.com
- 20. Case study: NSAand SELinux ● NSA needed access control security policy for Linux ● Engaged Red Hat during development process, patches available in 2000 ● Integrated into standard Linux kernel in 2003 ● Standard in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 21. Case study: AlterWayand oVirt ● French services and hosting company ● Running a public cloud offering “H2O” on oVirt, needed features added in oVirt 3.1 ● Openness enabled AlterWay to get ahead of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization product ● Engaged the project as a sponsor and supporter, influencing project roadmap
- 22. Engaging makes bettersoftware
- 23. Diverse marketplace ofservice providers Image credit: opensource.com
- 24. Case study: OpenStack ●OpenStack project launched by NASA and Rackspace in 2010 ● Hugely successful in growing an ecosystem of suppliers (distributions, public cloud providers, service companies, consultants) ● A multitude of suppliers gives customers the freedom to leave: opportunity to switch supplier or support vendor
- 25. More eyeballs, fewerbugs Image credit: opensource.com
- 26. Case study: TokyoStock Exchange ● Regular downtime, server “overheating” ● Moved to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2009 ● Since move: transaction latency down from seconds to milliseconds ● Zero downtime since migration
- 27. Open Source isbetter quality than proprietary Image credit: opensource.com
- 28. No more zombieprojects Image credit: Andrew Braithwaite
- 29. Case study: LibreOffice ●Oracle pulled resources off OpenOffice.org after acquisition ● Community forked LibreOffice project ● Over 600 developers from dozens of companies in recent 4.0 release cycle
- 30. Case study: Evolution ●Ximian and CodeFactory developers worked on Evolution 1.0 ● Ximian acquired by Novell, Novell reduce involvement ● Red Hat continues development and maintenance
- 31. Payment at thepoint of value
- 32. Case study: OpenShiftOrigin ● Evaluation possible with OpenShift onlineat openshift.redhat.com ● Install and support OpenShift Origin yourself, evaluate and prepare for deployment ● Buy support for OpenShift Enterprise once you move to production
- 33. Engaging with opensource projects
- 34. Engaging with opensource projects ● “When in Rome...” ● Learn community processes ● Be bold ● Be persistent
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- 36. Project: WildFly ● Standardsadoption – AMQP, Java EE ● Dozens of projects build on the WildFly platform: ● TorqueBox, Arquillian, Infinispan, AeroGear ● Get involved: http://www.jboss.org/contribute http://wildfly.org
- 37. Project: Fedora ● Millionsof users, thousands of community members ● Open governance architecture – community debates future direction ● Drive to innovate – early adoption of technologies like SELinux, systemd, GNOME 3 enables better Red Hat Enterprise Linux product ● Great recruitment and mentorship program: http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora http://fedoraproject.org
- 38. Project: Gluster ● Sharedstorage – distributed POSIX filesystem and object storage ● Extensible core enable plug-in community: http://forge.gluster.org ● Get involved: http://www.gluster.org/ http://gluster.org
- 39. Project: oVirt ● Datacentervirtualization similar to vSphere ● Broad support and engagement: IBM, NetApp, Intel, ... ● Diverse and growing user community ● Get involved: http://www.ovirt.org/Community http://ovirt.org
- 40. Project: RDO ● RDOis a community-supported distribution of OpenStack ● Opportunity to engage directly with OpenStack project ● Integration work, PackStack installer all open source ● Wiki and forum enable community support ● Get involved: http://openstack.redhat.com/Get_involved http://openstack.redhat.com
- 41. Project: OpenShift Origin ●OpenShift Origin source code is on github (Apache License v2) ● Vibrant cartridge community and distribution channel ● Huge collection of kickstarts for applications ● IRC: #openshift on FreeNode ● Get involved: https://www.openshift.com/developers/get-involved http://openshift.redhat.com
- 42. Come visit ourstands! Find us in the Developer Lounge in the expo hall
- 43. Related presentations Time TitlePresenter Room Thurs 10:40am SELinux for mere mortals Thomas Cameron 302 Thurs 3:40pm Writing cartridges for OpenShift Jhon Honce 207 Thurs 10:40am GlusterFS Internals & Roadmap Vijay Bellur, Jeff Darcy, JM Walker 209 Thurs 3:40pm How the Red Hat ecosystem works Mike Werner 209 Thurs 2:30pm Introduction & overview of OpenStack for IaaS clouds Keith Basil 310 Thurs 3:40pm OpenStack architecture Russell Bryant 310 Wed 7pm Build applications the JBoss way Pete Muir, Ray Ploski 301
- 44. Questions? Image credit: opensource.com DaveNeary <dneary@redhat.com> Community Action and Impact