All About Open Source Entrepreneurship

Join us for our inaugural Open Source Entrepreneur Network meetup in New York. This will be a chance to meet and talk to experienced open source business leaders in the area. Come and trade best practices and stories from the trenches with others looking to integrate open source practices into their business. Open Source has transformed the technology world, and this is your opportunity to learn from the best.

Speaker Lineup

Danny Rosen( https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannyrosen ): Desktop Linux enthusiast, open source product manager, zsh community member
Twitter: @dannyzen ( https://twitter.com/dannyzen )

Danny Rosen is a NYC based product manager with marketing, networking, finance and cloud product experience. Danny started his career as a Test Engineer and learned to code by becoming involved in various open source projects. During his career he realized he preferred to build products rather than break them and transitioned to a product manager role.

Danny's presentation will cover what it means to have a product be open source from the perspective of a product manager. He'll discuss why organizations open source products, the governance models they use and what it's like to be involved in the open source community.

John Mark Walker ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmarkwalker/ ): long-time open source product, ecosystem and community expert and founder of the Open Source Entrepreneur Network ( https://osenetwork.com/ ). Twitter: @johnmark ( https://twitter.com/johnmark )

In olden times, when we used IRC and liked it, there were several steps along the way from creating an open source project to releasing a product. Some of these were artifacts of the (lack of) tooling of the time, such as the need to assemble pieces into a whole before releasing as a product. That "first cut" of distribution became a community project in itself. Now that we have better, automated tooling for development, you may be fooled into believing that this "first cut" step is no longer needed. Au Contraire! John Mark will demonstrate why this is still necessary with examples from Fedora, CloudFoundry and Moby.