Going Open: How to Make a Project Open Source

Going Open:
Making an Existing Software
Project Open Source

Peter Vescuso
Black Duck Software

Trends

“Software is
Eating the World”
Marc Andreessen

Copyright © 2012 Black Duck Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Source: Karim R. Lakhani

Trends: Open Innovation k@hbs.edu

“No MatterAcademia Are, Most of
Who You
the Smartest People Work for
Someone Else”

Bill Joy, Cofounder Sun Microsystems
Innovation

Community Commercial


Trends: Open Innovation

Then Now

Time


Trends: “Super Communities”

Healthcare Automotive

Aerospace
Polarsys

Financial Services
Mobile

Why Open Source?

“Open source helps us build better
products faster”

Erynn Petersen
Vice President of Developer &
Open Source Evangelism


Staying in Synch with Changes


How Not to Go Open


Sample of Projects


Open Sourcing – Will it Succeed?

Erynn Petersen‟s check list:
 Does a similar open source project already
exist?
 Are there interfacing projects we can
leverage?
 Does an evangelist or „rock star‟ already
exist for the project?
 Which projects have „cache‟?
 Who is already using the software that we
can engage for help/partnership?
 What is the competitive risk?
 What is the estimated cost to open source?
 What is the benefit to AOL? What is the
benefit to the development community?


Open Sourcing – Will it Succeed?

An open source Node.js web framework
for real time web development.


Open Source or not?

Keep the platform
proprietary Open Source it

Delay Helps get
competition shared
from creating investment in
knock-off the platform
products. to help us all.
Gil Yehuda
Director of Open
Source Strategy
Forces our
Be alone product to
caring about compete on
the platform‟s full
development. experience,
not timing.


Open Source or not?

Open source platform for Big Data

Gil Yehuda
Director of Open
Source Strategy


Open Sourcing - Preparing

Clean Code

Documentation

IP Rights


Community Management

Bugs

Issues

Roadmap


Summary

 Open innovation is growing
 Many reasons to open source proprietary code
– Webinar with AOL - How to Go Open: Successfully Open
Sourcing Internal Software Projects
 http://advance.blackducksoftware.com/content/WRGoOpen
– Webinar with Yahoo - Open Source as a Catalyst for Innovation
and Cultural Change Featuring Yahoo!
 http://advance.blackducksoftware.com/content/WRYahooSM

 Making an open source project successful:
– Attractiveness
– Transparency
– Meritocracy
– Management


6th Annual Future of Open Source Survey
www.futureopensource.net

 Produced by Black Duck, North
Bridge & 451 Research
 Focuses on the next generation
of open source topics
– Community driven innovation,
vertical industry adoption, etc.

 Keynote panel at OSBC, May
21, 2012 in San Francisco to
discuss the survey results

Help Shape the Future of Open Source!
Take the Survey Today!
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22F4B845DQ5

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