OSCON is approaching and the schedule‘s looking great. On the Tuesday morning Simon will be one of several open source foundation leaders giving guidance and sharing experience on some of the practical aspects of starting a foundation at the Community Foundations 101 tutorial. Here’s the program for that event:
Scheduled: 9am Tuesday August 23rd, in room F150
- What is a Foundation and what benefits does it provide?
- Should every project be part of a Foundation?
- Should we start our own Foundation?
- What existing Foundations could we join?
- Where should we do that?
- What “type” should it be? 501(c)(3, 4, 6), eV, Stiftung etc
- Regulatory trends
- Staff roles
- Do we need an Executive Director?
- Outsourced administration
- How can we raise the funds we need?
- How can we spend money?
- Should we pay for code?
12:00 End
Chair: Simon Phipps, OSI & MariaDB Foundation
Faculty:
- Josh Berkus, Software in the Public Interest & PostgreSQL
- Steve Holden, Python Software Foundation
- Paula Hunter, OuterCurve Foundation
- Bradley Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy & FSF
- Dave Neary, Red Hat & GNOME
- Deb Nicholson, OIN, MediaGoblin & OpenHatch
- Ian Skerrett, Eclipse Foundation
The topics covered here are just some of the considerations to be made when starting a foundation; in fact even the decision to start a foundation is itself not always the best option. Hearing about some of the mistakes, failures and successes that the panel have already experienced will help get your foundation on the right track.
Simon will also be giving a talk on the Thursday afternoon about the process by which corporations can find themselves embracing and benefiting from open source.
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