2. • How we went from a funded academic
project to an ASF incubator
3.
4. the proposition
• Implementation of emerging standard
• Can be extracted from larger project
context as a discrete project
• A good fit with ASF - home to other
W3C ref implementations
• Already some interest from outside the
project
5. Questions I was asked by my
boss
• “What is our commitment and
exposure?”
• “How can you work on this when
there isn’t a cost code for it?”
• “What if we get another project that
needs you to work on it?”
6. The Business Case
• With some help from Ross @ OSSWatch…
• Identified a “survival budget” for core staff to
manage the transition to ASF and maintain
basic contributions for 2 years
• Identified a range of potential sources of
value and funding
– New projects
– Consultancy
– Internal ITS adoption/support
8. The Process
• Incubator vote
• IP due diligence
– Rewriting some code
– Lots of emails
• CLA
• ICLA
• Transfer of codebase
• Induction
9. So what happened?
• Income generated from this work far, far
exceeded the survival budget.
• Total income generated for next 3 years:
~£700k from two FP7 projects
• Plus very substantial value added by
the community
• Only actually core funded from Dec 09-
Sep10 @ 0.2FTE (around £12k)
10. 500
450
Community Added Value
400 IEC
EU
350
300
Value
250
£ (000's)
200
150
100
50
0
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Year
11. Added Value
• Work contributed to Wookie by the incubator
community
• Bug fixes
• New features
• Build and install process
• Connection framework
• New persistence layer
• Connectors in PHP, C#, Python, Ruby …
12. New Partnerships
• T-Systems
• SAP
• Gesfor SA
• Huawei
• University of Trento
• Chemnitz University
• University of Madrid
• TIE Kinetix
We had no contact with any of these
organisations before Wookie went
into the ASF Incubator
13. New networking opportunities
• ASF community
• Other interested projects
• Mobile apps/widgets community
• Android community
• W3C Social Web XG
