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Community Open Source Development:
The Possibilities for Innovators
Raymond G. O’Brien
ARC CTO for IT
January 27, 2012
I Have an Idea
February 3, 2012
It starts with an
idea – or maybe
even a rough
vision
You want to develop the idea with
others (with the same interest,
passion, desire, etc.)
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What are the choices?
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Encourage informal internal pursuit (think Google Time)
Initiate a formal house development project staffed with
employees, interns
Contact for engineering and development services
Award a grant
Establish a formal partnership with a public or private
entity
Respond to a call for proposals
Start your own business
Do nothing; wait
Or…
Start or join a Community Open Source
Development Project
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Two Open Source Development
Approaches
Cathedral –
development by an
exclusive group
Bazaar –
development by a
community
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A Community Brings A Lot To The Table
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Diverse skills and experience
Different perspectives
Different priorities and motivations
Energy and passion
A combined sense of purpose
An exciting example from NASA
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NASA uses commercially available products whenever
possible
But sometimes choice is limited and there is an
opportunity for NASA to enhance a sector of IT
I
Innovation in Cloud
Computing
There was this project called Nebula
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The Nebula team had an idea (or
more accurately, a grand vision)
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NASA would work with a world-wide community of
developers to build an open source cloud stack
It was achieved!
February 3, 2012
In July 2010, Rackspace and NASA each contributed the
foundational components of Openstack
» A new open source development community was formed overnight
In just 18 months, its growth has been phenomenal
» 2300+ community members; 150 corporations
It Happened
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World-wide development
community
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OpenStack Metrics
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First bug reported 8 minutes after launch; fixed 12
minutes later
30 companies within first month, 50 within eight months;
150 today
2300 members of the development community
Named #2 and #4 most popular new open source
projects in 2010 as measured by Black Duck
In first month, Iphone, Ipad, and Android interfaces
created
Selected by Canonical for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
Selected by HP and AT&T for delivering public cloud
services; chosen by Dell for private cloud offerings
Mapping Open Source Development
to NASA’s Open Government Plan
Aligns perfectly with
the Plan’s 3 major
tenets:
» Transparency
» Collaboration
» Participation
Flagship initiative
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Mapping Open Source Development
to NASA’s Open Data Plan
NASA’s public data
sets are intended to
be processed and
manipulated
New policy being
pursued will allow
NASA to participate
in SW development
with the public
towards this end
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NASA’s new code.nasa.gov site
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Community Open Source
Development: The Possibilities for
Innovators
Address a gap
Create standards
Pursue a vision
Build, enhance, or support a
community
Leverage inherent
characteristics of
transparency, collaboration,
and participation
Practice public-private
collaboration
Start a movement
Create niche capabilities
Share your knowledge
Test an idea
Achieve a goal sooner
Demonstrate a success as
basis for …
Expose security and other
mechanisms to scrutiny for
finding flaws
Create missing interfaces
Create competition
Influence direction
Build an open foundation for
a new product, business
Differentiate
Create economic advantage
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In Summary
Community open source development provides an
exciting and proven option for innovators to turning ideas,
visions, and plans to reality
However, remember to do your homework:
» Intellectual property, export control, and security details can be
complex
» Make the investment in gaining the necessary understanding of the
open source model and associated licensing
The rewards can be staggering!
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