oss community management

OSS & Communities

Dr. Clement Escoffier, akquinet A.G.

What about me ?

OSS & Communities

Solution Architect in the Modular and Mobile CC Apache Software Foundation

PMC Apache Felix, Apache Ace Apache Felix iPOJO project leader

OW2 Chameleon project leader

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akquinet

akquinet business consulting GmbH €60k SE

Associate Partners

BMC GMBH

cimt AG

DoubleC GmbH

Groupconcept GmbH

infodesign GmbH

panoptimum GmbH

Portal Systems GmbH

PortivITy GmbH

w//Center GmbH

International

akquinet IBS GmbH €250k SE

akquinet IBS Brüssel GmbH €40k SE

akquinet eurosoft Sp. z o.o. €100k SE

HKS GmbH €75k SE

Microsoft / .NET

akquinet dynamic solutions GmbH €300k SE

akquinet SLS logistics GmbH €250k SE

Outsourcing

akquinet outsourcing gGmbH €250k SE

akquinet system integration GmbH €125k SE

JAVA / SAP

akquinet it-agile GmbH €100k SE

akquinet tech@spree GmbH €300k SE

akquinet enterprise solutions GmbH €80k SE

akquinet AG €1300k SE

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Modular and Mobile Solutions Competence Center focusing on

Modular Systems Modularization expertise OSGi-based Sophisticated, Large scale, Distributed systems

Mobile Solutions In the large

Mobile devices, Interactions middleware, Server-side … M2M, B2B

Open Technologies OSGi (Apache Felix, Apace Ace, OW2 Chameleon, Apache Sling…) Android Java EE (JBOSS, OW2 JOnAS)

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Solution Architecture

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Business-Code Architecture

Runtime Infrastructure

Development Infrastructure

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But what about open source ?

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What has changed Open Source ?

Before After

The Almost

All-In-One Solution

Only compatible with our products

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What has changed Open Source ?

Before After

The Almost

All-In-One Solution

Only compatible with our products

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Great !

But, how to put pieces together ? 11 OSS & Communities

It’s where the community is important ! Why ?

You cannot be an expert on everything

The community is the biggest set of knowledge User experiences Code base experts

Say Hi to the community


Inspired from a true story


Technology choice


After a pretty long discussion


The ‘final’ decision – light version

ESB

Android Home-Made ESB

OSGi Enterprise OSGi

Map Providers Agnostic GPS based location

Ace Deployment Admin


Help Wanted – Different Community Models

Nice picture But after a couple of dev days… Help Needed !

One question Multiple answers ! Discussion Feedbacks

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The big, perfect community The true and big community

Several people may answer and help you Reactivity

24/7

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Several Community Models The big community in umbrella projects

Few people may answer and help you But they are generally the experts !

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Several Community Models The big community in dormant projects

Mostly abandoned projects Why ?

Evolution (something better somewhere else) Tragedy of the commons

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Several Community Models The limited community

Generally the expert Dependence …

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Several Community Models The dead community project

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When users enter the community The community is not only developers

Users are also really important User feedbacks User point of view

No users No challenges !


The ultimate goal of the community

Confidence


Why not diving ? Open Source has drastically changed how we build software

systems More modular, flexible, robust, high quality Why not diving ?

Win – Win Good for the community

Feedback Challenge

Good for the users Expertise

Good for academia A nice way to get feedback

But don’t forget to say ‘THANKS’ 25 OSS & Communities

Questions ?

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Karl Pauls [email protected] Bülowstraße 66, 10783 Berlin +49 151 226 49 845

Dr. Clement Escoffier [email protected]

Bülowstraße 66, 10783 Berlin +49 175 2467717