What are key differences between foundation-based and company-led open source projects? What skills, tools, metrics do community managers need in non-profit and for-profit projects? What drives the motivation of contributors?
Open source projects hosted at foundations typically involve dozens of member companies with hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of developers. Company-led open source projects on the other hand, typically involve majority of developers employed by the “host” company with a small number of volunteers from a wider community.
Based on experience working at non-profit FSFE, OpenStack and at for-profit companies Funambol, Scality this presentation will share lessons learned. The talk will include different approaches they had to learn for motivating community members, doing outreach to potential contributors, dealing with cultural differences (incl. open source background), looking at community metrics, etc.
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