Different companies working on different stacks, which one is the right stack for my application? Is opensource the way to go? What is the future of opensource? The Talk at FOSSMeet 2013 tries to answer these questions.

1. Running a Company atop
Of
Open Source
Anoop Thomas Mathew
FOSSMeet 2013,
Profoundis Labs
NIT Calicut atm@profoundis.com

2. ● Co-Founder and CTO, Profoundis Labs
● Python and Django for last 3 years
●Speaker at Pycon 2012, Fifth Elephant
2012, FOSSMeet 2011 …
ABOUT ME
Using open source from 2003
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3. In a company,
What
OPEN SOURCE
●
●Why
●How
●Who
AGENDA
●When

4. ●Cost Factor
●Security
WHY OPENSOURCE ?
●Technical Superiority
●Customization & Audit
●Support
●Joy of Sharing

5. ●Corporate Model
●Architecture
●Application Delivery
PARADIGM SHIFT
●Content Generation
●Content Consumption
●Scale up Rate

6. Building
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products with open source
Delivering
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services over open source
BUSINESS MODELS
Selling support for free and open source
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Provide consulting on open source
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7. ESTABLISHED COMPANIES
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IBM ●
GroupOn
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facebook ●
FlipKart
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WhatsApp ●
SoundCloud
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Instagram ●
do.com
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Quora ●
BaseCamp
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OpenERP ●
Twitter

8. ➢ Bootstrap
➢ Be Agile
➢ Minimize Cost
STARTUP TIPS I
➢ Quick Solutions
➢ Good Support

9. ➢
➢ Be Scalable
➢ Well Tested Scaffolding
➢ Don't reinvent the wheel
STARTUP TIPS II
➢ Simple is Elegant
➢ Customers are Kings

10. ●Services Projects in django
●django-tastypie, backbone.js
●elastic-search
●redis ● PostgreSQL
●jQuery ● mongodb
●celery ● git
●nginx ● Jenkins

11. ● Operating System
● Collaboration System
● Version Control
● Code Sharing Platform
TOOLS ON TRADE
● Development Framework
● Server Management
● Continuous Integration
● Testing & Bug Tracking

12. ●Twitter Bootstrap (divshot.com)
●BackboneJS (jsfiddle.net)
A FEW TO CHECKOUT FOR
●Django
●Ruby on Rails
●Sintara
●Kiwy
●Flask
●Meteorjs
●NodeJS
●Play

13. ● Help with open source
● Report Bugs
THE COMMUNITY
● Participate in mailing list
● Contribute
● Blog heavily

14. ● Read wide and deep
● Follow HackerNews
HOW TO GO FURTHER
● Find something interesting
● Find a bug!
● Ask
'You'll never know, until you try'

15. FUTURE OF OPENSOURCE
Its Us!

16. How can I ...
QUESTIONS
We are hiring!
welcome@profoundis.com

17. Every project is UNIQUE!
so should be the stack
THANK YOU
@atmb4u
We are hiring!
welcome@profoundis.com