Open Source can be a great foundation for building a business. That being said, keeping the balance between community building and commercial activities can be tricky. In this talk I want to share my experience and practical tips, which can help you leverage OS and boost your business, while meeting fantastic people and learning a lot in the process.

1. Building your business on
top of Open Source
02.09.2017., #wczg
Antonio Perić-Mažar, CEO @ Locastic

2. Antonio Perić-Mažar, mag. ing. comp.
CEO, Co-Founder @ Locastic
Co-Founder @ Shi# Conference
So#ware developer, Symfony2
Open Source Contributor
SFUGCRO
www.locastic.com
antonio@locastic.com
@antonioperic

3. We help clients create amazing web and mobile apps (since 2011)
www.locastic.com @Locastic
Design and development agency
Mobile development
Web development
UX/UI
Training and Consulting
Shi! Conference, Symfony Croatia

6. What is Open source?

7. Source code made available with a license in
which the copyright holder provides the rights to
study, change, and distribute the so!ware to
anyone and for any purpose
Open-source so!ware may be developed in a
collaborative public manner

8. Abiliam, Acquia, Ant Systems, Appnovation, Appsembler, Ardent Technologies, Inc., Bareos GmbH &
Co. KG, Black Duck So!ware, Capital One, Chamilio, Chef, CloudFoundry Corp, Confer, Coolan,
Couchbase, Credativ, DEIS/Engineyard, Eclipse Foundation, EnterpriseDB, Evlolverum, Grid
Protection Alliance, Hewlett Packard, InfoSys, JFrog, Linux Foundatiuon, MARSEC, Microso!,
MASSTLC, Miracl, nexB, NGDIX, North Brdige, Open Clinic, Opmantek, OpusVL, Penthao, Red Hat, The
Apache So!ware foundation, The Document Foundation, Ubuntu, Univention, VoltDB, Wikibon,
WIPRO, WP Engine …

9. 65%of company surveyes
Use of OSS increased in

10. 55% 65%leverage OSS for
production infrastructure
leverage OSS to speed
application development
More than More than

11. Operating
Systems Database Tools
Companies are using Open Source at every
level of application development

12. 55% 67% 34%of companies are actively
contributing to open
source projects
of companies actively
encourage developers to
engage in & contribute to
opensource projects
of companies have over
half of their developers
contributing to multiple
open source projects

13. 67% 65%to fix bugs or add
functionality
to gain
competitive edge
Companies choose to participate in Open Source

14. 90%of respontends say open source improces efficienty,
interoperability and innovation

15. 1 2 3Faster, more agile
development
Accelerated time to
market
Vasly superior
interoperability

16. $387-billion
Barry Boehm's widely accepted COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), an algorithmic So!ware Cost Estimation
Model that relates so!ware development effort for a program, in person-years, to source lines of code (SLOC)

17. 2.1 million people-years
of development
Barry Boehm's widely accepted COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), an algorithmic So!ware Cost Estimation
Model that relates so!ware development effort for a program, in person-years, to source lines of code (SLOC)

18. How open source
can help you
Barry Boehm's widely accepted COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), an algorithmic So!ware Cost Estimation
Model that relates so!ware development effort for a program, in person-years, to source lines of code (SLOC)

19. Open source makes it cheaper to build things
Open source make it faster to build things
Open source makes it faster to scale

20. #Businesses that don’t #use
#open source ‘will fail
“
Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation chief

21. Open source is code and
community

22. Open source is
all about people

23. Open source is not “free”

24. Our story and what
we learned

26. Don’t reinvent the wheel
but think twice!

27. Is product ready for production?
When it will be ready?
Can you maintain it?
Will it save you some time and money?

28. Good code doesn’t sell

29. You can learn from
good code!

30. BDD
TDD
Coding best practices
Large project organisation

31. Free consulting services

32. Your code will be reviewed by best developers
Your code will be reviewed for free
They will probably tell some nasty words about
your “amazing code”
You will get consulting for free

33. Contributing is hard

34. You need time and budget
It is good thing to do
It is hard to do it while you are doing
project for clients

35. Open Source is good
sales channel

36. Agencies and clients are following GitHub
You can boost your visibility
You can boost your skills

37. Networking is amazing

38. You will meet a lot of smart and cool people
You will get some new partners
You will learn a lot about communities and how
they work

39. You can contribute
without writing code

40. Reporting issues is also contributing
Talking at some events is also contributing
Doing any kind activity to promote some project
is contributing

41. Say thank you!

42. Twitter, facebook, GitHub
It doesn’t matter just say thank you, it means a lot

43. What happen?

44. Higher visibility
Invitations to events and conferences
We are known as Symfony and Sylius experts
New clients, new business opportunities

45. How to start?

46. Start small
Do some testing, report issues
Do your libraries as Open source
Go to conferences
Speak at conferences

47. Locastic HQ - Lovački Put 7, Split
MEETUP
#4
SYMFONY CORE TEAM DEVELOPER (US)
Tuesday, 05/09/2017 at 19.00h
It is Symfony
Flex time!
Ryan Weaver

48. Thank you!

49. QA

50. www.locastic.com
antonio@locastic.com
@antonioperic
Thank you, again :)