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03 Jul 2014

‘Where’s the Money in Open Source?’ – Software and Open Source SIG Event - Cambourne

Open source is a growing and arguably successful strategy for making our corner of the world a better place. While altruism motivates many individuals and some companies to make things open source, others are in it for the money. On the other hand, many companies use or are forced to use, open source for its perceived cost-saving value, often disregarding its risks. So what’s the business case for open source?

Covering multi-faceted aspects of the topic, this half day event - taking place at MediaTek Cambourne offices on 10th July 2014 - will explore the challenges and the opportunities in making money out of open source, and the various business models used. It will help those considering developing open source to understand where the value is and look at what the future might bring. Confirmed speakers include Lars Kurth of Citrix, Jack Lang of Raspberry Pi, John Scott of Qualcomm Technologies Inc and Neil McGovern of Collabora. They will be joined by Andrew Haley of Red Hat during the Panel Session.

This gripping event will tackle the most pressing issues in open source today by discussing the following angles:

  • If you don’t sell the software, what can you sell? Or is it just PR and marketing?
  • Can you cash in on a reputation made in the open source world?
  • What is the price of open source?
  • Is Bitcoin the way to literally make money from open source?
  • Are there indirect benefits from developing open source, and if so, what are they?

Confirmed speakers for this event include:

  • Lars Kurth, Director of Open Source Solutions, XENPROJECT.org, Citrix
  • Jack Lang, Co-Founder and Chairman,  Raspberry Pi
  • Neil McGovern, Engineering Manager, Collabora
  • John Scott, Senior Director, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

Andrew Haley, Tech Lead at Red Hat will be joining the Panel Session.

The Software/Open Source SIG is championed by John Bechtel of Badger Pass, David Berry of Qualcomm Cambridge Ltd, Phillip Burr of Arkessa, David Roberts of Jabooh Software Services and Kevin Rolph of MediaTek.

We are also extremely grateful to MediaTek for hosting this event.

To follow this SIG on Twitter, @CambWireless, please use #CWSWOS

This event is FREE to members of Cambridge Wireless. Tickets for non-members are £155+VAT. To join Cambridge Wireless as a member and attend future events for free, please visit: www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/sign-up

Limited FREE places for non-members: We are keen to engage with, and foster the next generation of technologists so we have limited FREE delegate places at our events for non-members who are under 30. If you would like to register for one of these places, please register as a non-member and under job title please list your date of birth. We will then confirm if you have received a place within one week of the event.

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