Sustainable Open Source
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Let's discuss how to build sustainable open source businesses while being a responsible corporate citizen, and giving back to the global developer community!
As always, we have limited space so RSVP now. Sign up for the Impact.tech newsletter (http://tech.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ea04760bb28be5b57f70b542f&id=4507ab7102) to get notified about our future events and workshops.
The speakers:
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Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij - co-founder and CEO of GitLab (http://gitlab.com), a Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures and Ashton Kutcher (among others) backed git repository management solution with less than 50 salaried employees and more than 700 open source contributors. It is used by more than 100,000 organizations including NASA and CERN.
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Priyanka Sharma - co-founder of WakaTime (http://wakatime.com) - an automated time tracker for developers, with over a hundred open source contributors. Priyanka has worked with several developer products such as Postman, the Rest API testing suite building their developer community. She is passionate about open source and other inclusionary business models and sees them as the businesses of the future.
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Quinn Slack - CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com), a code intelligence platform for teams that sits on top of any code host and helps companies build better software. Sourcegraph pioneered the Fair Source License (https://fair.io/), a new model for sustainable software creation that enables public source code availability while preserving the ability to charge companies that get business value from the software.
Schedule:
6:30pm - open doors, wine and snacks
7:00pm - Speakers start, so please don't be late.
7:45 - Short break
8:30 - 9:30pm - Community announcements and networking