When newcomers to open development consider whether it is the right approach for their project, they often assume that one needs a large community to reach success. They see projects like GNOME, Firefox or Eclipse and imagine huge projects with thousands of active developers. The natural assumption is that their little niche project is unlikely to be a success. Is this a correct assumption? In this presentation, Gianugo Rabellino will dissect a typical large community. We'll discover that in most cases, the core team is very small, often just one or two people.
Is my community too small for success?Session time: Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 2:50pm - 3:30pm About the SpeakerGianugo Rabellino
CEO, Sourcesense
Gianugo Rabellino is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense. He has been at the forefront of the Open Source movement in Europe, founding the first official Italian Linux organization in 1994, and launching Orixo, the consortium of European Open Source companies. A Member of the Apache Software Foundation, Rabellino serves as Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee, is a committer on several ASF projects including Cocoon, Xindice and Jackrabbit, as well as mentor of the River and CouchDB projects currently in development at the ASF Incubator. |
