Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be?
Panelat Cloud Native StartupFest NA 2024 · on Tuesday, 2024-11-12· at 16:55· Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A·
summary
CNCF membership buys brand, community and shepherding—Dapper graduates Oct 30 and Diagrid is the primary maintainer—but it does not help companies monetize or let vendors promote products inside project channels, forcing firms to run separate marketing and Discords. Most contributions come from paid maintainers, and projects tilt single‑vendor versus multi‑vendor with real legal and procurement friction (some buyers demand indemnity for transitive deps). Linux Foundation approval of Scarf usage analytics is a recent example of practical vendor support.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00CNCF open source panel intro
- 1:47Donating projects to CNCF
- 8:52Company health for open source
- 14:10Company-foundation relationship
- 27:36Open source company opportunities
- 32:00Closing and Q&A
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