Janne Kalliola's session about the role of open source brining meaning to people's lifes from DrupalCamp Baltics 2017.

1. VIRTUAL 'TALKOOT'
OR BRINGING
MEANING TO YOUR
LIFE.
www.exove.com
@exove

2. About Myself
§ Janne Kalliola, CEO of Exove
§ Have been coding since 1983 – Basic, Pascal, Lisp,
Fortran, C/C++/Obj C, Java, PHP, JavaScript
§ Working with web publishing since 1994 and open
source CMS from 2003
§ Now running Exove, a leading Nordic company
focusing on open web technologies

3. www.kallio.la
@plastic

4. Exove in Brief
Exove is a leading digital services design and
development company focusing on open technologies.
We help companies to grow their digital business.
Quick facts:
§ Founded 2006
§ Over 90 people
§ Served more than 250 clients
§ Offices in Finland, Estonia, and
the UK
§ AAA credit rating

5. www.exove.com
@exove

6. SOME BACKGROUND
– WHERE I COME
FROM

7. Nordic Countries
§ Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
§ 26 million people
§ Found in top in numerous metrics
§ Education
§ Economic competitiveness
§ Civil liberties
§ Quality of life
§ Human development
§ Nordic model of economy and social structure
§ Universal healthcare and welfare + heavy taxes
§ High income redistribution and little social unrest

8. Open Source Impact
§ Nordic countries have been a hotbed of open
source tools
§ There have been numerous very successful
open source projects that have originated from
the Nordic countries
§ The area has probably the highest density of big
open source projects per capita

9. A Few Examples
Linux – Finnish
MySQL – Finnish / Swedish
PHP – Danish
eZ Publish – Norwegian
Varnish – Norwegian
Git – Finnish
Irc – Finnish
OpenSSH – Finnish

10. Why Nordics are so
successful with open
source?

11. Numerous Reasons
§ Transparency of society
§ Egalitarian, open, and non-hierarchical culture
§ Open to external influences
§ Well educated population
§ History of doing things together for a greater
good

12. Numerous Reasons
§ Transparency of society
§ Egalitarian, open, and non-hierarchical culture
§ Open to external influences
§ Well educated population
§ History of doing things together for a greater
good

13. In plain Finnish:
Talkoot

14. What is 'Talkoot'?
§ Talkoot is a Finnish expression for a gathering of
friends and neighbors to accomplish a task.
§ The task of the talkoot may be something that is a
common concern, for the good of the group, or it may
be to help someone with a task that exceeds his or her
own capacity.
§ A talkoot is by definition voluntary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_work#Talkoot

15. Why does 'talkoot'
matter?

16. We need to start quite
far to see close.

17. We have no
dreams
anymore.

18. We have no
dreams
anymore.
In Western
world.

19. Or do you
dream of
these?

20. How about
these?

21. How about
these?
Yeah, maybe a
little…

22. Anyhow…
§ We have it all here in Western world
§ There is no need to strive to meet good
standards of living
§ Stuff has lost its importance
§ The things that our parents lusted for – fridge,
colour TV, car – have lost their appeal.

23. We don't need
anything, as we
already have it.

24. Also, the cost of living
has gone down
dramatically.

25. You don't need to
spend half of your
monthly salary to food
or clothes.

26. And most of the other
items do not cost that
much compared to a
few decades ago.

27. Thus, there are no
material rewards for
striving harder.

28. The big dream of past
generations – improve
your standard of living
– is gone.

29. And that's why we
don't feel purpose in
life.

30. As we don't have a
dream anymore.

31. Ok. What then?

32. Sense of purpose
comes from
meaningfulness.

33. Thus, spare at least an
hour a week for
something meaningful
to you.

34. This being a DrupalCamp
session, I might have a clue
what is meaningful to you…

35. Anyhow, at least an
hour per week.

36. To something that you
love.

37. YOU LOVE
IT

38. Typically, you are good
at things you enjoy.

39. Or you will soon
become, as you learn
easiest to excel in
topics you love.

40. YOU LOVE
IT
YOU
ARE
GREAT
AT IT

41. Wouldn't it be wonderful that
things meaningful to you
would be beneficial to the
world?

42. YOU LOVE
IT
YOU
ARE
GREAT
AT IT
THE
WORLD
NEEDS
IT

43. This is the concept of
virtual 'talkoot'.

44. Having passion to be
on a mission.

45. The world getting
better, as skillful
people love to do
things that matter.

46. Preferably together
and with some kind of
coordinated effort.

47. Sounds familiar?

48. Which brings us to…

49. …open source.

50. So, should you be
working with open
source…

51. Every contribution to
an open source project
makes it better.

52. And there are people
around the globe that
will benefit from your
work.

53. Actually, people
around you right here
and now.

54. Tinkerers that can gain
profession from their
hobby.

55. People who can learn
systems without
spending money on
licenses or certificates.

56. In a developing
country, that might be
a ticket out of poverty.

57. Speaking of countries, they
could use their IT budgets to
foster local developers –
instead of paying license
fees abroad.

58. Channeling money to
develop the platform to fit
the specific needs and still
keep the money locally.

59. And raising the knowledge
and skills of your own
people.

60. Like eating the cake
and having it.

61. Successful open source
communities grow and
change constantly.

62. Every new developer makes
the community stronger –
and this brings in more
developers.

63. And when there are enough
people, commercial
opportunities start to appear.

64. Thus – sooner or later -
there will be dozens of
companies that would like to
hire you to work with open
source.

65. YOU LOVE
IT
YOU ARE
PAID FOR IT
YOU
ARE
GREAT
AT IT
THE
WORLD
NEEDS
IT
@Frank_Giustra

66. YOU LOVE
IT
YOU ARE
PAID FOR IT
YOU
ARE
GREAT
AT IT
THE
WORLD
NEEDS
IT
@Frank_Giustra

67. YOU LOVE
IT
YOU ARE
PAID FOR IT
YOU
ARE
GREAT
AT IT
THE
WORLD
NEEDS
IT
@Frank_Giustra
Purpose.

68. YOU LOVE
IT
YOU ARE
PAID FOR IT
YOU
ARE
GREAT
AT IT
THE
WORLD
NEEDS
IT
@Frank_Giustra
Purpose.
In everyday churn.

69. YOU LOVE
IT
YOU ARE
PAID FOR IT
YOU
ARE
GREAT
AT IT
THE
WORLD
NEEDS
IT
@Frank_Giustra
Purpose.
With open source.

70. THANK YOU!
QUESTIONS?
www.exove.com
@exove

71. We deliver digital growth.