2026-02-02, 16:50–17:40, D.Aud
Open Source is essential for most IT orgs.
Whether you run native applications or containers, there is always open source underneath.
Open Source is developed in public by people who are interested and engaged.
Companies take open source, change colors and sell this as a product. The larger the company, the higher the price.
Why should a community not participate as business and get their value?
I will talk about possible ways a community can collect and spend money.
But community and business are difficult to combine.
In my talk I will give an insight, how the OpenVox/Puppet community has started becoming more "business-like".
Martin works on automation in IT since early 2000.
He is a member of the OpenVox/Puppet Open Source Community and helps companies building their own on-premise cloud.