open source community & business development panel - mindtrek 2016

Panel Open Source Community &

Business Development

17.10.2016Mindtrek 2016

#mindtrek16 #panel

Panelists

• Carlo Daffara, CTO of CloudWeavers and researcher on IT economics

• Matti Pesu, Chair of the Oskari-network, Senior inspector in the Finnish Transport Agency

• Vesa-Matti Hartikainen, Program Manager, Jolla Oy

• Martin von Willebrand, Chairman of COSS ry, Validos ry and Attorney at HH Partners

• Building an open source community as a platform for, enabler or booster of business. Or building business as a booster of community?

• How to build a community the right way, and what not to do? What are the positives and negatives?

• What type of monetization is positive/negative for the community?

• Licensing options and open core, dual licensing and delayed open licenses.

• Intros and viewpoints• In building community what have you achieved, how?• What have found out that did not work?• Leadership question: role of objectives in the start?• Monetization: how do you make money? What

monetization supports the community, what works against it? – Is it ok, if it works against the community, but not too much

• Role of defining/finding the competitive advantage?• Licensing can be used to create scarcity, does it work,

when?– It surely works for some proprietary companies