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March 2006 DSpace Federation Governance Adv isory Board Meeting Open Source Software Governance Case Studies

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March 2006 DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board Meeting

Open Source Software

Governance

Case Studies

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March 2006 DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board Meeting

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

Apache software powers 65% of web sites worldwide

501(c)3 non-profit foundation

Reasons for creating ASF Create legal entity Protect contributors from

liability Protect Apache assets

Membership: individual Apache Incubator

Governance and Staffing Board of Directors Project Management

Committees ASF Members Committers Contributors

Funding All-volunteer

staffing/development resources

Donations Corporate investment

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The Sakai Foundation

Collaborative and Learning Environment software

Started as a multi-university collaboration

501(c)3 non-profit foundation

Membership Institutional only 100 member institutions

and commercial affiliates

Governance and Staffing Board of Directors Executive Director-

TBH ~3 technical staff

Funding: membership fees $10K/year, 3 year

commitment for large institutions

$5K/year, 3 year commitment for smaller institutions

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The .LRN Consortium

Collaboration and Learning Environment software

Originally developed at MIT

501(c)3 non-profit foundation

Membership Primarily institutional 25 paying members out

of 120 registered users

Governance and Staffing Leadership team,

technical advisory board and user advisory board

Volunteer Executive Director

¼-time release manager

Funding Membership contribution:

$250/year

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MySQL AB

Database management system

For-profit company 8M installations Employs 275 platform

developers Community contributes

bug fixes and testing

Business model Venture capital

investment $40M in revenue (2005)

Support and subscription services

Sale of commercial licenses (dual-license model)

Franchise of MySQL products and services to value-added partners