Building a Company atop of Open Source
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Running a Company atop Of Open Source Anoop Thomas Mathew Profoundis Labs [email protected] FOSSMeet 2013, NIT Calicut
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Different companies working on different stacks, which one is the right stack for my application? Is opensource the way to go? What is the future of opensource? The Talk at FOSSMeet 2013 tries to answer these questions.
Transcript of Building a Company atop of Open Source
Running a Company atop Of
Open Source
Anoop Thomas MathewProfoundis [email protected]
FOSSMeet 2013, NIT Calicut
● Co-Founder and CTO, Profoundis Labs
● Python and Django for last 3 years
● Speaker at Pycon 2012, Fifth Elephant 2012, FOSSMeet 2011 …
●Using open source from 2003
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●What
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●Cost Factor●Security●Technical Superiority●Customization & Audit●Support●Joy of Sharing
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●Corporate Model●Architecture●Application Delivery●Content Generation●Content Consumption●Scale up Rate
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●Building products with open source
●Delivering services over open source
●Selling support for free and open source
●Provide consulting on open source
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●IBM●facebook●WhatsApp●Instagram●Quora●OpenERP
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●GroupOn●FlipKart●SoundCloud●do.com●BaseCamp●Twitter
➢ Bootstrap➢ Be Agile➢ Minimize Cost➢ Quick Solutions➢ Good Support
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➢ Be Scalable➢ Well Tested Scaffolding➢ Don't reinvent the wheel➢ Simple is Elegant➢ Customers are Kings
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●Services Projects in django●django-tastypie, backbone.js ●elastic-search
●redis●jQuery●celery●nginx
●PostgreSQL●mongodb●git●Jenkins
● Operating System● Collaboration System● Version Control● Code Sharing Platform● Development Framework● Server Management ● Continuous Integration● Testing & Bug Tracking
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●Twitter Bootstrap (divshot.com)●BackboneJS (jsfiddle.net)●Django●Ruby on Rails●Sintara●Kiwy●Flask●Meteorjs●NodeJS●Play
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● Help with open source● Report Bugs● Participate in mailing list● Contribute● Blog heavily
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● Read wide and deep● Follow HackerNews● Find something interesting● Find a bug!● Ask
'You'll never know, until you try'
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Its Us!
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