November RefreshSD MeetUp - Understanding Commercial Open Source

Once thought to be an oxymoron, Commercial Open Source vendors have proven that they can offer the best of both worlds; providing value to the community at no cost, while also proving themselves in the enterprise with robust commercial offerings, and, most importantly, a viable business model.

Questions Answered:

1. What are Traditional Commercial Software Business Models?
2. What is Open Source software development and licensing?
3. Reasons for choosing Open Source development and licensing
4. What is the Commercial Open Source business model?
5. Why buy the cow if the milk is free: How commercial open source builds value in functional delineation
6. Blood from a Rock: How to spend your (Nearly Non-Existent) marketing budget
7. Power in Numbers: How to embrace and nurture your open source community
8. Why an economic downturn may be the best time to build your open source company
9. Mind the Gap: How to balance the feature sets of two parallel product lines
10. Does it work? Successes and failures in Commercial Open Source

Presentation and discussion by Mike Diliberto of San Diego's MindTouch

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AGENDA:
7:30-7:45 - Announcements, Member intros
7:45-8:30 - Topic and Discussion
8:30-9:00 - The usual networking and geek tech talk

This event is free but seating is limited to 40. For more information go to http://RefreshSD.org...

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