OSS and Business Model: Zettascale

Open Source has gone a long way and arguably it is at the foundations of today’s software infrastructures. Open Source is used by tech giants as a way to establish platforms and by small companies as a way to be noticed for their innovation and talent. But building a viable business with Open Source isn’t always obvious. This presentation will share our experience in building a company around successful projects and share the challenges we face as a small company.  The Tragedy of the Commons will be discussed in the context of Open Source to help understand that common goods require common responsibility.

Speakers:

• Angelo Corsaro
  Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and ZettaScale Technology co-founder 

  At ZettaScale he is working with a world class team to change the landscape of distributed computing. Angelo and the ZettaScale team are working hard to bring to every connected human and machine the unconstrained freedom to communicate, compute and store — anywhere, at any scale, efficiently and securely. Angelo is a world top expert in Cloud-to-Thing Continuum and a well-known researcher in high performance and large-scale distributed systems. Angelo has over 100 publications in referred journals, conferences, workshops, and magazines. Angelo has co-authored over ten international standards.

• Gaël Blondelle
  Chief Membership Officer and Managing Director, Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH
  
  Gaël has been involved in Open Source for 15 years with the goal to help companies adopt and develop open source projects and collaborate better. He joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2013 to develop the ecosystem in Europe, and to support the development of Eclipse Working Groups. Outside of work, Gaël likes spending time with his family and travelling to visit beautiful places in the world.

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