Keynote opening session of the Paris Open Source Summit 2019, on the Artificial Intelligence theme.

1. Forks Happen on the Open Road

2. Bonjour
Yoav Kutner
Co-Founder, x.CTO of Magento
Co-Founder, CEO of Oro Inc.
Co-Founder Akeneo PIM
@YoavKutner

3. The Journey

4. The Varien Days (and Nights)

5. Open Source Technologies
• Linux/Unix
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP

6. • osCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by project founder and leader Harald Ponce
de Leon as The Exchange Project.
• As of August 2008 the osCommerce site says that there are over 14,000 'live' websites using the
program.
• In November 2010 the development of osCommerce v2.2 was met with another stable release.
Version 2.3
• Version 3.0 has been released on March 31, 2011 and is a major re-write of the program to
incorporate an object-oriented backend, a template system to allow easy layout changes, and
inclusion of an administration-area username and password definition during installation.

7. We Hit a Crossroad

8. Magento Development Time Line

9. Community

10. Community

11. Magento Developers

12. Magento Developers

13. Magento Developers

14. Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
Magento Developers

15. Contributions
Extensions
Magento Connect
Magento Developers

16. We are in the business of leaving holes
Roy Rubin
Magento Developers

17. Open Source Ecosystem

18. Magento Ecosystem
The Magento system integrator
ecosystem is significant, with estimated
collective revenues approaching
Forrester Research, June 2011
$1 billion annually

19. The Magento system integrator
ecosystem is significant, with estimated
collective revenues approaching
Forrester Research, June 2011
$1 billion annually
Magento Ecosystem

20. Core Values
• Partnership
• Community
• Collaboration
• Transparency
Magento Ecosystem

21. Magento Ecosystem
Core Values
• Partnership
• Community
• Collaboration
• Transparency

22. Magento Ecosystem
Core Values
• Partnership
• Community
• Collaboration
• Transparency

23. Don’t Be Afraid of Forks

24. • In software engineering, a project fork happens when
developers take a copy of source code from one software
package and start independent development on it, creating a
distinct piece of software
• Free and open source software may be legally forked without
the approval of those currently managing a software project or
distributing the software, per the definitions of "free software
and open source“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)
Don’t Be Afraid of Forks

25. The way to deal with forks is to be attentive to the
reason(s) the fork was created and release often.
Don’t Be Afraid of Forks

26. Merci Beaucoup!
Life would be so much easier
if we only had the source code...
Anonymous

27. t: @YoavKutner
e: yoav@oroinc.com