Getting Energized by the Bureaucracy of Open Source
Talkat Open Source in Finance Forum New York 2022 · on Thursday, 2022-12-08· at 10:30· HALL 1, New York, NY, USA·
summary
Open source projects often start as weekend hacks and scale into production with 100,000 women taught by Girl Develop It as an example of open curriculum success, then hit real demands: security, IP, and 20+ user issues per day. Four sustainability paths appear: abandon, monetize (ads/CLI), corporate acquisition (remix → Shopify), or sponsorship/foundation support. Foundations supply marketing, legal, security audits, code-of-conduct enforcement and board governance so projects can survive and maintainers can stop firefighting and focus on code.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 2:49The entropy of Open Source projects
- 3:23Step 5
- 6:07Where does code go to be sustainable?
- 10:31Foundations Provide
- 12:50How do you get involved?
- 14:46What's fun about bureaucracy and governance?
- 15:33How do you get started?
- 16:30Shameless plug
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