Shane Curcuru
Punderthings Consulting
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Shane has been volunteering at the ASF since 1999, serving on multiple projects and roles including VP, Brand Management, a many-term Director, Vice Chair of the Board, as well as speaking at (and running one!) ApacheCon / Community Over Code.
Outside of the ASF, Shane works to improve open source sustainability and coordinating communities with academic researchers.
Otherwise, Shane is a father, husband and friend. Oh, and we have cats! Find me on socials at ShaneCurcuru.
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The Practical ASF Way
The Apache Way is a set of behaviors and techniques that will help everyone - organizations and individuals alike - work more effectively in distributed communities. These behaviors turn plain old open source into a truly open governance project, that can keep growing for the long term.
This session is a highly interactive review of the core behaviors that help keep Apache projects healthy and productive. Many behaviors are required at the ASF, but they are also valuable to any collaborative project where the contributors are distributed across companies, continents, and experiences.
Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of practical actions they can take to help improve their own open source experience, and how to help their communities succeed together. Lessons learned are tied back directly to relevant community and PMC documentation at the ASF, including the latest edits and updates in our docs.
Who Funds FOSS Foundations?
Have you ever wondered how open source organizations get funded? Not just developers, but the ecosystem of major open source projects at Foundations or organized projects?
Many software projects we rely on are hosted at Foundations like Apache, Eclipse, Linux, or Software Freedom Conservancy. Foundations provide a wide variety of support to project communities, like legal and licensing assistance, trademark management, event support, and more. As non-profits, these foundations rely on donors and sponsors for funding. So who funds these foundations?
Come find out the companies behind the popular open source foundations, and who's paying for the support work like keeping the servers running, press releases coming, and license compliance working. Surprises are guaranteed; I know I was surprised when I realized how many different FOSS projects that Microsoft is an annual sponsor for, what projects a few other companies supported with their cash, and how big one foundation has gotten.
FOSSBackstage 2024
Exploring open source sustainability and spoke about who funds FOSS Foundations, with data from organizations across the ecosystem.
Community Over Code
I gave talks on the Practical ASF Way, Trademark Law AMA, and Who Funds FOSS Foundations.
Shane Curcuru
Punderthings Consulting
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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