06-08, 17:00–17:50 (EST5EDT), Altispeed (JR Ballroom )
"Open Source" extends beyond licensing. This talk explores crucial project elements for holistic adoption. Assessing factors like binary availability, documentation, governance, and community dynamics reveals a project's true open-source essence. Learn key criteria ensuring long-term adoption beyond mere licensing considerations.
The term "Open Source" typically refers to the license a project uses, but is having an Open Source license sufficient for a project to embody all the values commonly associated with Open Source Software? Perhaps not. In this presentation, we will discuss what other aspects of a Project need to be assessed for long-term adoption. This includes factors like the availability of binaries and quality documentation, governance structure, community size and activity, along with several other important criteria.
Peter Zaitsev, an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, and FerretDB, is an expert in Open Source strategy and database optimization. Peter also advises numerous open-source startups and co-authored the book "High Performance MySQL."