floss and startups
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FLOSS and Startups
Guilherme CavalcantiTechnical leader, application platform team @ Redu
Apresentações
• Guilherme Cavalcanti
• Brazilian web developer since 2007
• CIn-UFPE
• Co-founder at Redu
• Technical leader of platform team
• Twitter/Delicious/Github:
• /guiocavalcanti
Road map
• E-learning platform built on top of a social environment
2010 @ Porto Digital
2009 @ CIn
Team
• 15 friends at work
• Designers
• Developers
• Researchers
• Business people
Redu-labs
• CCTE
• 11 associated researchers
Quartas e Sextasdas 8h às 10h das 10h às 12h
Horário
Público-alvo
Ciência da ComputaçãoEducaçãoDesign(aceitamos ouvintes no limite da capacidade da sala)
Introdução a aplicações educativas; Software social; Game Design; API do Redu; Guidelines do Redu; Prototipagem de jogos; Métodos e técnicas de avaliação de aplicações sociais; Fenômenos de colaboração, coordenação e percepção social.
Ementa
educationaltechnologies
Engenharia de Software Educativo(IF800)
(60h)
Facilitadores
contato: [email protected]
Key features
Key features
Key features
There is more
• Mobile learning
• Semantic visualizations
• Many-to-many content authoring
• Applications platform
Background
The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source
• Strongly based on Bruce Perens essay
• Economical point of view over The cathedral and the bazaar
• Enabling and differentiating software
• FLOSS as a mean and not as the end
The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source
Stallman is a programmer, and chose a philosophical presentation that appealed to programmers.
In contrast, business people are pragmatists and are more impressed by economic benefit. Because
Stallman's presentation limited his audience, his campaign had not been able to achieve the economic
serendipity that is visible today
Bruce Perens, The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source
The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source
In Raymond's model, work is rewarded with an intangible return rather than a monetary one.
Fortunately, it's easy to establish today that there is a strong monetary return for many Open Source
developers.
Bruce Perens, The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source
Context and key-questions
Context and key-questions
• Three problems we encountered
1. Lack of skilled people with fluence on our technologies
2. Lack of sinergy between the local startups that user the same techonology
3. Application platform boostering
Lack of professionals
Problem 1:Lack of professionals
• It’s hard to found skilled people at Recife
• + 150 curriculums
• + 25 job interviews
• 5 hires
Problem 1:Lack of professionals
• Not mainstream technologies
• Weak user groups
• PUG-PE (python user group)
• Frevo on Rails (ruby/rails user group)
• Full-stack programmers
Frevo on Rails
• We started to foment/promote the user group
• Regular meetps
• Focused on Porto Digital (local IT cluster)
Frevo on Rails
• Joint venture
Frevo on Rails
• Good growth
• Attracted big companies
• A lot of job demand
Problem 1:Lack of professionals
• It’s hard to glue people together
• The programming language isn’t an union point
• Low returning rate
• A lot of new people
• That never return
FLOSS as a gravitational center to the user group
• Traning
• Connecting people through FLOSS projects
• Few using the language at work
• What projects? How are going to maintain at first?
Lack of synergy betweed startups
Problem 2:
Lack of synergy between startups
• Few companies uses non-mainstream technologies
• Similar business
• Small IT companies
• Some share the same need
• Low cost SMS backend
• REST APIs
• Big Data
FLOSS as a way to increase the synergy between startups
• Startups are going to boost and maintain FLOSS projects at first
• Supports problem 1
• FLOSS + funders + people
Application platform boostering
WTH is that?
• Educational market issue
• Lots of segments
• Transform the product into a programable platform
• Amazon vs. Google +
Educational market
• Teacher issues
• Educational objects
• Marketplace
Problems
• How to integrate that many languages/platforms?
• SDKs/Wrappers
FLOSS as way to boost the app platform
• There are corporate needs/interests
• There are common needs betweeb 3rd party developers
• Bruce Perens essay apply
• Enabling technologies
• Differentiating technologies
To sum it up
Problemas
Lack of work force
Lack of synergy
Apps platform
FLOSS
How Redu is benefited?
• Best engineers
• Better product
• Empowering people through education
• Capacity building on our local IT cluster
• Application platofrm
• Through education.
