Avoiding Maslow’s Hammer: Or the Problem of the Birmingham Screwdriver in Open So...
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Non-profits take on liability, hold IP and bank accounts, and provide antitrust-safe neutral ownership so projects can scale; Henrik Ingo’s crunch shows the nine largest communities hubbed in non-profits and Kubernetes’ documented governance is a concrete model. Practical tools include staff program managers, 12-hour working‑group chair courses, and Day Zero cultural transference events (IETF, IEEE, Eclipse). Anti-pattern: launching a foundation without mentoring and fiscal rigor leaves projects floundering; fiscal hosts like Open Collective/fiscal host solve bank account and branding needs for long‑tail projects.
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- 0:00Start
- 8:10Building Community Captures Innovation Inbound
- 10:54The Evolution of an Open Source Project
- 14:12Project Growth Hits a Natural Ceiling
- 19:18Cultures and Practices (THE MONEY SLIDE)
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