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SIM RTP Meeting - So Who's Using Open Source Anyway?
The document details a meeting about the use of open source software, including its history, philosophy, and various business models. It highlights the increasing adoption of open source in companies, the benefits it offers, and the skills needed in the workforce. Panel discussions also address challenges, community engagement, and the impact of open source on future technology trends.
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- 1. SIM RTP Meeting April20, 2017 So Who’s Using Open Source Anyway?
- 2. Agenda ● Welcome andIntroductions ● Brief Introduction to Open Source ● Open Source by the Numbers ● Use Cases - Business Models ● Open Source Philosophy and Culture ● Panel Discussion ● Closing Thoughts
- 3. Panelists Jason Hibbets -Opensource.com Community Evangelist, Red Hat Todd Lewis - Open Source Evangelist, Founder of All Things Open Conferences Alex Meadows - Principal Consultant, Data and Analytics, CSpring Jim Salter - Co Owner, Chief Technology Officer at Openoid LLC
- 4. Who’s Using OpenSource Today? Are you currently using open source as part of your company’s technology stack? • Yes • No
- 5. Who’s Using OpenSource Today? For those that replied no, we’re not using open source because… • The unknowns are just too scary! • We don’t know enough about it but we’re willing to consider. • We’ve been thinking about it but just haven’t had time to evaluate. • It’s part of our IT strategy, we just haven’t gotten there yet.
- 6. Who’s Using OpenSource Today? For those that replied yes, we’re using open source and… • It’s been fantastic and we’re looking at new uses! • We’re still working out the kinks. • We’re not sure this is the path for us.
- 7. Who’s Using OpenSource Today? What I hope to learn from the Program this evening… • What the heck is Open Source? • How open source is part of our everyday world. • How to evaluate using open source technologies. • I’m using open source now, what else could I be doing? • Something else???
- 8. Brief History ofOpen Source
- 9. ● Richard Stallman- founder of the Free Software Foundation ● Tried editing drivers for Xerox 9700 and was locked out ● Realized that software was heading down an unacceptable path ● Freedom is vital for the sake of users and society as a moral value - not just for pragmatic reasons like possibly developing superior software. @OpenDataAlex
- 10. Free Software Foundation’sFour Freedoms ● The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). ● The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). ● The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). ● The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit! Source: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html @OpenDataAlex
- 11. Open Source vsFree Software ● 1998 - Open source movement spun off from Free Software ● Open source has less strict standards - not all open source licenses are free software licenses ● Balance on the areas that concern creators ○ Open core ○ Free open source ○ Etc. @OpenDataAlex
- 12. Free/Open Source Proprietary ●Copy-left - can be reused, modified, and distributed as long as the same licensing is in place ● Support - Creator, community, and commercial support are available to varying degrees ● Documentation - Creator, community, and commercial documentation are available to varying degrees. ● Freedom limitations, but meets most of the Freedoms ● Copy-right - creator retains all rights. Limited (if any) reuse and modification (fair use). ● Support - Creator and/or licensees may provide support ● Documentation - Creator/support companies and limited community involvement (think blogs, forums, etc.) ● Freedom restricted, no Freedoms not really met. @OpenDataAlex
- 13. Use Any ofThese? They all contribute, use, or support open source/free software! @OpenDataAlex
- 14. GitHub Stats 2016- https://octoverse.github.com/ @OpenDataAlex
- 16. Open Source bythe Numbers
- 17. Future of OpenSource Survey ● 1300 respondents, 64 countries ● 78% technical, 22% c-suite ● OS nearly ubiquitous now, big change from 10 years ago ● Foundation of nearly all apps, OSs, cloud platforms ● Use of OS software increased in 65% of companies surveyed @toddlew
- 18. Why Using? ● Overallquality of solutions ● Competitive features, technical capabilities ● Flexibility/freedom from vendor lock-in ● Reduced dev costs ● Accelerated time to market @toddlew
- 19. Where using? ● Operating systems ●Databases ● Developer Tools @toddlew
- 20. Participation ● 67% companiesencourage devs to engage and participate ● 65% are contributing and participating ● Only 1 in 3 have a full time resource ● 59% participate to gain a competitive advantage ● Why? ● Fix bugs, add functionality ● Gain competitive advantage ● Reduce dev costs @toddlew
- 21. Rapid Adoption ● Outpacedmanagement and security practices ● 47% no formal process to track code ● 50% no policy for selecting and approving open source code ● More than a third - no process to identify, track, remediate vulnerabilities ● How track code? ● (1) Dev teams manually track ● (2) Company asks devs ● (3) 3rd party tools, automated @toddlew
- 22. Business Impact ● 90%surveyed said open source improves: ○ Efficiency ○ Interoperability ○ Innovation @toddlew
- 23. Business Models -Making Money ● SaaS - 45% ● Custom Development - 42% ● Services/Support - 41% ● Open source private financing increased by 4X in last 5 years @toddlew
- 24. Hot Technologies ● Versioningsystems used: ● Git overwhelming favorite - 73% ● GitHub - now valued at $2 billion ● Containers: ● 76% surveyed plan to use ● 37% for/in development ● 36% for testing @toddlew
- 25. Open Source Skills ●Shows 10 year shift from community/volunteer based ● 400 hiring managers, 4500 technologists ● Open Source talent has the advantage today @toddlew
- 26. Overview - Highlights ●OS now go-to platform for building software - talent now a priority ● Why? ● Flexibility in accommodating new technologies ● Speed of adapting to change ● 65% employers report more OS hiring than in other parts of business @toddlew
- 27. Statistics/Data ● 59% hiringmanagers surveyed will add more OSRs in next 6 months ● Economy driven? 57% will add more, up from 44% ● More than 9 in 10 AWS clouds run Linux ● 87% of hiring mgrs report difficulty finding skills
- 28. Certifications/Formal Training ● Yes,please ● 5%+ hiring managers prioritize ● 44% report those with certifications and/or formal training more likely to be hired @toddlew
- 29. Hiring Managers -Most important skills/biggest impact ● 51% - Cloud - OpenStack, CloudFoundry, etc ● 21% Networking - Why? ● Open source collaboratively built, more adaptability ● 14% - Security ● 8% - Containers ● 7% - other @toddlew
- 30. Technologists - Nextbig/fastest growing ● 50% - Cloud technologies (OpenStack, CloudFoundry) ● 19% - Containers ● 16% - Security ● 9% - Networking ● 5% - other @toddlew
- 31. Technologists - Bestthing about open source ● 31% - Interesting projects ● 18% - Cutting edge tech ● 17% - Collaboration ● 12% - Job opportunities ● 12% - Work with best devs ● 5% - Job stability ● 2% - Money/perks ● 3% - other @toddlew
- 32. Open Source Hiring- The search is on ● 87% report difficulty ● 79% have increased incentives to retain and attract OS talent ● 44% have increased salaries in OS more than in other parts of business ● 43% offering more flexible hours + telecommuting
- 33. Use Cases -Business Models
- 34. Consulting/Custom Development ● Provide consulting/development servicesaround an open source project/platform. Don’t have your own version, simply support, optimize and customize as needed. ● Percona @toddlew
- 35. Traditional/Services ● Enterprise versionsof open source projects - services, support, maintenance, installation, indemnification ● Free versions also ● Red Hat - Operating system (Linux), server virtualization. Fedora/free, RHEL/enterprise ● Cloudera - Commercializes the Hadoop open source project. Offers enterprise version with features - security, performance, biz analytics. Enterprise Data Hub ● *Hortonworks - makes $s from paid support. ● MySQL, Canonical/Ubuntu @toddlew
- 36. Hybrid/Core ● Open sourceis used as (standardized) core components/foundation, then develop open source and/or proprietary on top to offer products and services. ● Facebook ● Google ● GitHub ● Amazon @toddlew
- 37. Facebook ● Uses andbuilds open source for infrastructure, adds proprietary on top to produce services can monetize ● Originally built using LAMP stack - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP ● Open sourced Infer, tool used to id bugs in code; React, Javascript library for building user interfaces (Facebook and Instagram) ● Hundreds of projects on GitHub @toddlew
- 38. Facebook ● Why? ● Ideology- want to give back to the community ● Innovation - because open have many people contributing, able to disrupt (React) ● Good for business - keeps engineers informed/cutting-edge/collaborating, attracts top engineers @toddlew
- 39. Google ● Infrastructure isopen source code while search and advertising software is proprietary. Android OS. @toddlew
- 40. SaaS ● Based onopen source code but offered as software as a service ● Wordpress @toddlew
- 41. Cloud/Hosted ● Company hosts deploymentand management of open source, and manages for customer. Client gets access to open source tools ● Azure, AWS, Google @toddlew
- 42. A quick wordabout licensing ● Some allow for closed-source derivative of original ● Some reserve that right for original “owners”/creators ● Some are permissive (Apache) ● Some are more restrictive (GPL) ● 70+ licenses @toddlew
- 43. Open Source Philosophyand Culture @jhibbets
- 44. Everything comes withsources @jhibbets
- 45. Tenets of opensource communities @jhibbets
- 46. The open sourceway ● Open exchange ● Participation ● Release early and often ● Meritocracy ● Community @jhibbets
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- 48. @jhibbets Reference: The OpenOrganization by Jim Whitehurst
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- 50. The Open OrganizationGuide to IT Culture Change Agile / DevOps @jhibbets https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-it-culture https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/book-series
- 51. Open is aBetter Way @jhibbets
- 52. Licensing Panel Discussion Security LessonsLearned Testing Release Management Candidate Availability Training & Certifications Configuration
- 53. Closing Thoughts -Did We Answer All of Your Questions? • What the heck is open source? • How open source is part of our everyday world. • How to evaluate using open source technologies. • I’m using open source now, what else could I be doing? • Something else???
- 54. Contact Information Julie Batchelor- jbatchelor@cspring.com; @jwbatchelor Jason Hibbets - jhibbets@redhat.com; @jhibbets Todd Lewis - toddl151@gmail.com; @toddlew Alex Meadows - ameadows@cspring.com; @OpenDataAlex Jim Salter - jim@jrs-s.net; @jrssnet
- 55. Julie Batchelor Julie Batcheloris a Director with CSpring. She has more than twenty years of business and IT executive leadership experience in the public and private sector including more than ten years as Deputy State Controller / Chief Information Officer for the NC Office of the State Controller and Senior Vice President of Technology for the NC Community College System Office. Julie has been an invited speaker for numerous conferences and seminars including the CIO Forum & Executive IT Summit and the North Carolina Digital Government Summit. Julie is a graduate of NC State University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering - Construction Option. She is a Certified Government Chief Information Office and registered Professional Engineer.
- 56. Jason Hibbets Jason Hibbetsis a senior community evangelist at Red Hat which means he is a mash-up of a community manager and project manager for Opensource.com--a publication and story-telling platform for open source communities. At night, he puts on his cape, and is a Code for Raleigh brigade captain, CityCamp NC co-chair, NC Datapalooza co-chair, and member of the Code for America Brigade National Advisory Committee. Jason is the author of a book, The foundation for an open source city--a resource for cities and citizens interested in improving their government through civic hacking. While writing the book, he discovered his unknown super power of building communities of passionate people. Jason graduated from North Carolina State University and resides here in Raleigh with his wife, two kids, two border collies, nine chickens, lots of tomato plants, and a lazy raccoon somewhere in an oak tree. In his copious spare time, he enjoys surfing, running, gardening, traveling, watching football, sampling craft beer, and participating in local government--not necessarily in that order, but close to it.
- 57. Todd Lewis Todd Lewisis the Creator and Chair of All Things Open. He has created some of the leading open source technology events in the United States over the last decade, including All Things Open (Raleigh/The Research Triangle Park), Great Wide Open (Atlanta/Technology Square), and Open Source 101. Each has attracted thousands of attendees from all over the world and nearly every major technology company in the country regularly participates. All Things Open is now the largest open technology event on the U.S. east coast - more than 3,000 attendees are expected in 2017. He is a strong believer in open source technology and believes it will be the dominant approach/methodology in the future.
- 58. Alex Meadows Alex hasa MBA in Business Intelligence from Saint Joseph’s University and a Bachelors in Business Administration from Chowan University. Hobbies include: writing, table-top roleplaying, board and video games, and working on improving his patio garden. Alex Meadows is a Principal Consultant with CSpring working on business intelligence and decision support solutions. He has a keen interest in working with open source technologies. Taking his experiences from various industries, his goal is to build solutions that answer not only the client’s current questions, but also the questions they don’t know to ask yet.
- 59. Jim Salter Jim Salteris Co-Owner and Chief Technology Officer at Openoid, LLC. He has more than twenty years of experience in the information technology industry, including sysadmin, back-end developer, technical writer, and consulting. Jim also served in the United States Navy specializing in nuclear power. Jim is a featured author and writes for Ars Technica and Wirecutter, and has many publications. Jim is an open source evangelist and has been providing open source solutions to clients throughout his career. Jim wants the whole world to have better business continuity, disaster recovery capability, and workflow efficiency. His career revolves around on using the best tools at hand toward making that happen.
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