The document discusses open source software and communities. It notes that doing business with open source means earning a living by building a codebase that is freely available rather than selling proprietary code. It then provides examples of successful open source projects like Arduino and Asterisk that benefited from open business models and thriving developer communities. The document advocates adopting practices like sharing code openly, facilitating knowledge sharing, and contributing to leverage the network effects of open source.

1. Doing business o n
Open Source is not
selling a code that we
did not pay but earn
his life around a code
that is not sold.

2. Oh my god,
they stole my code!
Stephane Ribas (Inria, D2T)
Didiez Donsez (LIG)
for OWF 2013

3. MENU?
IOT - What is it?
What can we do with it?
AspireRFID project
My thoughts
Open Hardware
Deduce a model?

4. IOT - What is it?
Toc ! Toc ! Toc !

5. The Internet of Things
“one vision”
Mark Weiser 1991
The most profound technologies are those that
disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric
of everyday life until they are indistinguishable
from it
→ Commodity

8. Mediation flow between
physical & digital world
©Didier Donsez
Integration
Didier Donsez, 2005-2011, Vers des intergiciels RFID
(WMS, MES, ERP …)
Sensor
Event
Mediation
Physical
event
storage
Réaction en
“temps réel”
Publication
(ALE, …)

9. What can we do with
it?

10. Supply Chain
Smart Fruit & Vegetable Crates
1,8 million of recyclable catres with RFID UHF tags (EPC Gen2
Producers, washing stations, dispatch hubs, Stores,end-users
Images prises dans http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?8933

11. Smart Trash Can
(Pay-what-you-trash)
Plastic Omnium, Rapport d'activité 2012, p 39-40.

12. AspireRFID project

13. AspireRFID Project
Aim to develop a privacy-friendly
RFID Open Source Framework
http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/

14. What is RFID?


Radio Frequency Identification
Non contact

15. Many standards & patents
Physical standards
Frequency, Distance, Speed/Throughput
Environment/Tagged products (Water, Steel, …), …
Many US patents hidden by standards

16. Political Trends
EPC has a strong commercial support
Vendors Proprietary Systems
IBM, SAP, Oracle. . . offer RFID suites
Several countries are pushing their own
specific standards
China, Japan
The open source alternatives
Accada and many others (53 @ sf.net)
Not very well organized!

17. ASPIRE ?

18. ASPIRE RFID Implementation
User console – Object Geo Tracking

19. ASPIRE RFID Implementation
User console – Object Temperature History

20. ASPIRE
What did we do?
begin loop
Analyse the environment
Build a strategy...
Build a digital habitat
Develop codes & initiatives
Promote the project
Monitor
end loop

21. ASPIRE
What did we do?
function digital_habitat(needs)
-< OW2.org >case project-identity & code-dissemination
Web portal
case project-collaboration
Code repository
Issue Tracker
case project-interaction
Mailing-lists
end case
-< OW2.org >-

22. ASPIRE What did we do?
function build_web(url)
Good project name
Clear mission statement
State “project is Open Source”
Development status
License used
How to install and use
Where to download
How to contribute
Mailing list
end build_web

25. Oh my god,
they stole my code!

26. Are you sure mafalda?
.Great human adventure
.Be part of an important project for society
.Produce a suite of codes efficient & usable (from research lab to
industrials)
.We respected the Open Technologies / Open Sciences concepts
.Increased knowledges & contacts
.Team Brand (Work & skills recognized in our domain)
.Many new collaborations ! (on other projects)

27. I was going to forget this point...
ICAT killed me ;-)
ICAT?
Inflexible & Complex
Administrative Tasks

28. And today?
The code is still alive & in a public forge (OW2)
We continue committing new code for...
... the pleasure of unknown eco-systems

29. Are you okay?

30. Open Hardware

34. Open Hardware eco system
It produces new communities
Arduino, Linaros, RaspBerry pi, Diydrones,
ADA FRUITS...
13 companies
50 millions of dollars.
Predictions → 1 billion of dollars in 2015.

35. What are the roles of scientists in
this success?
Arduino founders are working in an university
in Sweden, Italy, etc.
Linaros founders were PhD students...
3D printer - RepRap was born in an
university...
etc.

37. Open Technologies?
Impact for arduino?
Arduino designs & codes are OPEN … really
open.
Leverage effect?
Facilitate project dissemination world wide
Increased widely Arduino usage by a large
audience
Facilitated the creation of a large ecosystem.

38. Eco System?
Co- creation of values?
In 2012, Arduino made...
1 million of dollars based on its 100% open
design hardware & software catalog.

39. Arduino Future?
Arduino YUN
Just simply amazing !

40. Telephony monopoly
Mark Spencer founded Digium in 1999. His idea
was to spread alternative solutions at very low
cost on the closed PBX market.
He decided to create and open its hardware
designs & codes...
Note that Mark decided at a point to redesign the Asterisk user
interface to make it very friendly so any IT people can install their own
phone system.

41. Results?
It covers full spectrum of hardware equipments & a
wide base of users.
Asterisk is a big OSS project (926.000 lines) and
one of most active...
8,000 active developers.
Asterisk forums > 35,000 topics > 120,000 posts.
Asterisk solutions are supported in over 170
countries.
Asterisk as became a standard for open source
PBX with a large community & eco-system

42. Reasons of the Digium success?
OSS is particularly relevant in areas of monopoly
Asterik provides an answer to a widely shared
problem.
Good governance & relevant choices.
User friendly free software/hardware project
Support & dedicated time to facilitate community
management.

43. Eclipse IDE eco system

44. Control vs Neutrality?
A long time ago... IBM fostered the creation of a
strong dynamic eco system (huge network of
companies and 10,000 daily downloads today)
Few years ago, IBM's tend to control more &
more the ecosystem.
External contributors felt like if they were working
for IBM and not for Eclipse.
The stagnation of the community has pushed the
Eclipse Foundation to divorce & restore some
neutrality in the eyes of community members.

45. Nokia &
Symbian OS

46. Is there any simple model
I could use
for my own IOT project?

47. Trust

48. Answer a shared need

49. Accept to share

50. Accept to dilute the control

51. Publish to increase the project
development

52. Advertize your existence

53. Positive community network

54. Facilitate the knowledge flow
flowledge :-)

55. Drive a ferrari or own a bicycle?

56. Use/Produce the open source
leverage effect

57. Okay but when I wake up in the
morning what shall I do?

58. Trust
→ give before taking (give
contributions before receiving from the
others)

59. Answer a (shared) need
→ identify community, project &
people that are acting in areas
related to your topics, identify the
leaders, approach & collaborate

60. Accept to share
→ open (really) your project
contents

61. Accept to dilute the control
→ delegate tasks & responsibilities
→ co-create value with competitors
“on non-strategic applications”

62. Publish code, design... to increase
the project development
→ release early & often
→ user friendly
→ low barrier entry

63. Advertize your existence
→ Submit articles in scientist
magazines, webzines, blogs,
conferences, tweets...

64. Positive community network
→ Community management
→ Momentum
→ Recognition
→ Interests

65. Facilitate the flowledge
→ publish what I learned & ask for
what I don't know!
→ Ask & answer questions from the
others

66. Drive a ferrari or own a bicycle?
→ Don't loose your time & your
money in trying to sell code

67. Use/Produce the open source
leverage effect
→ contribute
→ re-contribute
→ take advantage

68. OH NO! I don't want to
contribute before THEY commit first!

70. A comet in Open Source
conferences • A humble
(free) conference that
attracts insiders, opinion
makers & mainstream users
• A forum where people
meet, talk, share • Partners?
major Open Source actors •
The speakers? Open Source
leaders •
2013 topics?
Open Education, Flow
Computing, Open Art, Open
Source Journalism & Open
Intelligence, Eco- Systems ,
Eco- Trust, Eco- Nomy