selling open source, keeping your soul
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Selling Open Source, Keeping Your SoulBy Jess Rose
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Tell me about the weirdest missteps you've seen companies
make in open source? @jesslynnrose
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Once upon a timeā¦
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Open source is a way of building and sharing software based around openness and access
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Open source is the backbone of billions of dollars of business in the technology industry
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Spoiler:
This talk is going to be all about compromise.
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Mutual understanding
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Everyone in your org should know ā¤µ
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Everyone in your org should know ā¤µ
What open source means Why open source is important What are our business goals? How close are we to meeting these? What is expected from us?
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Everyone in your org should know ā¤µ
What open source means Why open source is important What are our business goals? How close are we to meeting these? What is expected from us?
@jesslynnrose
Everyone in your org should know ā¤µ
What open source means Why open source is important What are our business goals? How close are we to meeting these? What is expected from us?
@jesslynnrose
Everyone in your org should know ā¤µ
What open source means Why open source is important What are our business goals? How close are we to meeting these? What is expected from us?
@jesslynnrose
Everyone in your org should know ā¤µ
What open source means Why open source is important What are our business goals? How close are we to meeting these? What is expected from us?
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Expectations fromā¦
[users, customers, investors, team, contributors, community]
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You'll also needā¦
As much transparency as your company can survive.
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Skills Sharing
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Share talent across technical and business tasks
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Internal Hackdays
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Internal HackdaysAren't just for programming.
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Demo Days
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Collaborative Conflict
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Conflict is unavoidable.
Respectful, productive conflict can drive your product, companies and teams.
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Set up advocates for each perspective (
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Advocates need equal standing and access to power ā
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Driving progress through collaborative conflict requires
healthy company culture š·
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Compromise isn't always painless
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Perspective with hard choices:
Need this to stay afloat
This *might* help us grow
I think this would help us explore new
markets and activities Doesn't critically impact project
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Work in the open, be open to critical feedback.
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Understand how humans rank feedback and communication.
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We prioritize views of people like us, especially when they
agree with our own views.
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We view information from face to face interactions as more valuable than online-only.
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We view information from face to face interactions as more valuable than online-only.
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We prioritize information from people we have existing
relationships with.
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We can't eliminate all our biases. But it's good for business
and open source to try.
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Just rememberā¦
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Compromise
Negotiated through champions for
perspectives
Comes from equal access to power and
decision making
Relies on risk free feedback.
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Thank you. @crate.io @jesslynnrose Jessica.tech/slides/sellingopensource