Open Source Businesses as an Independent, Sustainable way to Fund Open Source

Idealists will say that open source contributors and maintainers are all volunteers, but the truth is that developing open source projects costs money. Relying on all-volunteer teams is a risk for individual projects and the ecosystem at large; relying on charity doesn’t accurately reflect the value that open source project create. In this talk, Emily will talk about why the open source community should embrace a more commercial approach to funding open source projects, and the key questions project maintainers who want to support their project by building a business around it should ask themselves to increase their chances of success.