Strategize a Smooth Tenant-to-tenant Migration and Copilot Takeoff
Building A Strong Open Source Ecosystem - Lessons From Around The World
1. FOSS:
Building a strong ecosystem
5th November 2008
Pia Waugh
Consultant – Waugh Partners
Founding Member – OLPC Friends
President – Software Freedom International
pia@waughpartners.com.au
19. FOSS is an ecosystem
of people...
● Projects
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Community distributions
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Commercial distributions
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Local User Groups
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Industry
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Users and innovators
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Advocates
20. ... who do stuff
● Software development
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Support
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Documentation
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Implementation
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Demos and talks
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User meetings
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Outreach events
28. Government: Using FOSS
● Industry develops through market needs
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Community responds to user needs
29. Government: Using FOSS
● Industry develops through market needs
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Community responds to user needs
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Skills development
30. Government: Using FOSS
● Industry develops through market needs
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Community responds to user needs
●
Skills development
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Best practices
31. Government: Using FOSS
● Industry develops through market needs
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Community responds to user needs
●
Skills development
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Best practices
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Reduction of FOSS procurement blockages
32. Government: Using FOSS
● Industry develops through market needs
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Community responds to user needs
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Skills development
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Best practices
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Reduction of FOSS procurement blockages
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Benefits of FOSS systems & industry
33. Government: Using FOSS
● Industry develops through market needs
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Community responds to user needs
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Skills development
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Best practices
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Reduction of FOSS procurement blockages
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Benefits of FOSS systems & industry
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Ask your vendors about FOSS
34. Ensure there is a need
Cost savings – Migration or consolidation
Sustainability – National Archives of Australia
Flexibility & Collaboration – eGovernment
Trusted Systems – eVoting – Diebold, ACT vs
Victoria
35. Government:
Developing FOSS
● Innovate with existing tools
36. Government:
Developing FOSS
● Innovate with existing tools
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Use FOSS collaboration methods and tools
37. Government:
Developing FOSS
● Innovate with existing tools
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Use FOSS collaboration methods and tools
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Encourage contribution to projects where
appropriate – bugs reports, code, docs
38. Government:
Developing FOSS
● Innovate with existing tools
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Use FOSS collaboration methods and tools
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Encourage contribution to projects where
appropriate – bugs reports, code, docs
● Whitebranding easy Government adoption
39. Government:
Supporting Communities
● Communities are bottom up, not top down
40. Government:
Supporting Communities
● Communities are bottom up, not top down
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Support enthusiasm within departments
41. Government:
Supporting Communities
● Communities are bottom up, not top down
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Support enthusiasm within departments
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Encourage participation in FOSS communities
42. Government:
Supporting Communities
● Communities are bottom up, not top down
●
Support enthusiasm within departments
●
Encourage participation in FOSS communities
●
Give staff time to learn and develop
43. Government:
Supporting Communities
● Communities are bottom up, not top down
●
Support enthusiasm within departments
●
Encourage participation in FOSS communities
●
Give staff time to learn and develop
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Support user groups – venue, pizza, hardware
44. Government:
Supporting Communities
● Communities are bottom up, not top down
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Support enthusiasm within departments
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Encourage participation in FOSS communities
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Give staff time to learn and develop
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Support user groups – venue, pizza, hardware
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Run/support events – hackfests, competitions
45. FOSS in Australia
✔ Private – strong user community
✔ Education – growing rapidly
✔ The Open Source Industry – highly skilled
globally successful and local development
✔ The Open Source community – large
and skilled community, project leaders
several local development labs
✔ Government – great case studies, lacking
cohesive leadership and strategy
46. FOSS in the
Australian Government
➢ Over 60% of agencies using FOSS
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Leadership from flagship agencies
➢
NAA – archival of Government data
➢
NSW Judicial Commission – core biz apps
➢
AGIMO – Government collaboration – GovDex
➢ NSW DET – FOSS in education
➢ Agencies participating in the community
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Increase in pilots and trials
“Open Source is the future” - Patrick Callioni, Division Manager, AGIMO
51. World experiences
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Sustainability Education Local industry
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Security ● ●
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Avoiding vendor Learning Flexibility
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Control ● ●
lock-in Localisation Cost savings
● Scalability ● ●
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Control over Community Gov investment
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Autonomous ● ●
Data IT industry
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Skills devel ●
● Self-determination bootstrapping
52. Thank you & Questions
Useful links
Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au/
Open Source Industry Australia - http://osia.net.au/
Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source - http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au
Australian Government collaboration portal - http://www.govdex.gov.au/
Australian FOSS Census - http://census.waughpartners.com.au/
Pia Waugh
pia@waughpartners.com.au
Waugh Partners
http://waughpartners.com.au
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