Heather MeekerCo-Founder at Chinstrap Community
Partner at Tech Law Partners LLP
From Project to Profit
From Project to Profit : The growing world of open source-based business
Open source software started from grassroots work by hobbyists and software freedom advocates, but today, it is also big business.Commercial open source software or "COSS" is now the business model of choice for most enterprise software.
Investors are pouring billions of dollars into COSS development.
This talk will explain how entrepreneurs can build businesses around open source software development, and what they must do to keep their businesses sustainable and their communities healthy.
