Nawaf Albadia
11 April 2010
• Open Source Paradigm?
• Your Project (Idea)!
• Tools and Programming languages.
• Open Source licenses.
• Hosting your project (idea)?
• Contributors and community.
• Investors.
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Open Source
Free Software
Open Source Software
OSS
Free/Open Source
Software FOSS
Free/LibreOpen Source
Software FLOSS
Simply Open Source
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The freedom to use the software for any purpose
The freedom to change the software to suit your needs
The freedom to share the software with everyone
The freedom to share the changes you make
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Define your role
Goals & Objectives
Build your idea
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Avoid Fatal Errors:
• Unclear goals & objectives.
• Unknown target users.
• Focus on code.
• Work with wrong people.
• No previous experience
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Open Source Projects
Creation
Survival
Growing up
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Independence
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The Language you like
Java
PHP
C++C#
Ruby
Scala
PythonVB
F#
ASP
Erlang
Groovy Haskell
Objective-C
Perl
• Is it desktop, web or mobile application?
• Target users
• The complexity of the project
• The technical requirements of the project
• The culture of the target users
• Sometimes you need more than one language!!!
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Code Repository
• Project Management and Collaboration tools
• Issue Management
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• The original copyright notice should always presented.
• The author name should be presented in the advertisement material.
• A disclaimer of liability.
• Can be used with propriety software.
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• GPL 1
– Distribute the executable and the source code.
– Any software that include GPL product must be GPL-ed.
– You can’t add more terms that restricts the use of the software.
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• GPL 2
– Changed a term that is related to the freedom of distributing the software under GPL.
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• GPL 3
– Came after 15 years from GPL 2.
– Strong (GPL3) and weak version (LGPL 3) which allows the use of the LGPL program with propriety.
– Included more details on the definition of “source code”.
– Hardware restrictions on software modification.
– Internationalization and how to handle violations.
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Originated from Apache Software Foundation in 2000.
– The copyright notice and the disclaimer must be presented and never changes.
– The source code to be evolved into propriety software.
– The reason for it is to overcome the GPL2 license as the GPL 3 was not introduced.
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• Sometimes called X11 and was introduced by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Considered to be among the simplest license and it is very similar to BSD.
• The software can be used with the propriety as long as the original license is included.
• The license can also be modified to suit the needs of the user.
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Develop Skills
Recognition
Career
Money
Gift Culture
Passion
FunSocial
Learning
Work
• Contribute to other projects.
• Use social networks; Facebook, Twitter etc.
• Try to obtain respect of the community.
• Offer services for FREE e.g. support.
• Everyone is a salesman for the project.
• Speak in conferences.
• Attend all related events & conferences and speak about your
project.
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• The Open Source projects are usually maintained by
geographically distributed groups of highly motivated
people dedicating their time freely, expecting only
recognition.
• Large project can be maintained by very small group of
people.
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Leadership
MaintainerMaintainerMaintainer
CommitterCommitterCommitter
ContributorContributor
ContributorContributor
Contributor
Contributor
Users
Bug Reports Bug Reports Bug Reports
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Business Plan
Prepare Your Talk
Establish Relationship
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Open Source Projects & Startup Websites, what do they share in
common?
Love Openness
Love Simplicity
Love Standards
Love to innovate
Thank you.You can follow me: http://twitter.com/nalbadia