Craft as in Beer: The Value of Community
A presentation at All Things Open 2019 in in Raleigh, NC, USA by Fen Aldrich
Craft as in Beer THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY 1 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
AARON ALDRICH Community @ ” # ! @CrayZeigh aaron.aldrich@elastic.co noti.st/crayzeigh 2
Free SOFTWARE 3 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
4 FREEDOMS ▸ Freedom to run the program as you wish ▸ Freedom to study and change how the program works ▸ Freedom to redistribute the program ▸ Freedom to redistribute modified versions of the program 4 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
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OPEN SOURCE DEFINITION 1. Free Redistribution 2. Source Code available 3. Derived Works allowed 4. Allow for Integrity of Author’s Source Code 5. No discrimination against persons or groups 6. No discrimination against fields of endeavor 7. Distribution of License 8. License not specific to product 9. License doesn’t restrict other software 10. License must be tech-neutral 7 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
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Free as in Beer 12 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
Free as in Puppies 13 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
Free as in Speech 14 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
Free as in… 15 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
BEER 16 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
Craft BEER 17 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
A BRIEF HISTORY ▸ 1887: Over 2,000 breweries in the US ▸ 1920-33: Prohibition ▸ Post WWII: mass production, conglomerates, big business ▸ Late 1970s: ≈44 total brewers ▸ 1978: Home brewing legalized ▸ 1980: 8 Craft breweries 18 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
SMALL LESS THAN 3% OF ANNUAL US SALES 20 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
INDEPENDENT LESS THAN 25% CONTROLLED BY NON-CRAFT BREWERY 21 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
TRADITIONAL THE MAJORITY OUTPUT IS FLAVORED BY FERMENTATION PROCESS 22 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
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Craft BREWERIES IN THE US 27 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
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Passionate 32 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
Innovative Tradition 33 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
Openness & Sharing 34 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
Community Focussed 35 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
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That’s not how community works -RICHARD STALLMAN 37 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
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Look at your own desires, the things you want in your life and then go out and find or build and steward communities with others who share your values, and who will embrace your purpose and who want you to be that person and sustain each other because that is the true soul of open * source — Adam Jacobs, OSCON 2019 * https://youtu.be/8q5o-4pnxDQ 41 — @CrayZeigh - #allthingsopen
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Instead of talking “Free as in beer”, let’s talk “Craft as in beer.” Not too long ago the entire beer market was set to be two companies, Anheuser-Busch and Miller-Coors, but plucky little startup brewers have not only survived, but thrived. On a similar time-scale, most software was being developed in large development houses behind closed doors. Open Source was largely thought of as an unsustainable mistake. Now, small open source projects pop up every day and even successful companies are based entirely on Open Source Software. How is this possible?
The overlap here: Building Strong Communities.
This talk will touch on:
- What qualities are true for anyone looking to be a Craft Software developer?
- How a strong community presence sustains your organization long term.
- How to practice sharing and contributing to the community, even if your code has to remain closed.
- Where can we build these communities?
Resources
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