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Making a Living from Free Software for Real

on YouTube 21m
TalkinFrenchat Sunny Tech 2024 · 2024-07-04..07-05· [open-source, career-development]

speakers

name:Lucie Anglade
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name:Guillaume Ayoub
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/VHX-ZpylMJE
slides:none on file

summary

The talk explains how the team behind WeasyPrint, an open-source Python library for rendering HTML/CSS to PDF, transitioned from an internal company project to a paid product with customers. It covers concrete ways to monetize free software, which revenue models they chose or rejected, and how they implemented those solutions to make WeasyPrint financially sustainable since 2020.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:02Who we are and our project
  3. 3:26WeezyPrint and Courbouillon origins
  4. 6:01Free software funding sources
  5. 11:13Revenue figures and breakdown
  6. 13:24Experience and challenges
  7. 17:18Conclusion and call to action
  8. 19:15Q&A

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