Giving Away the Code Without Giving Away the Farm: A Business Model for Open Source Entrepreneurs
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Transcript: English(auto-generated)
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So, just a little facial solutions provided to St. Claudia, Minnesota, of the United States.
00:23
It started with, uh, open source geo long-term.
00:49
So, no offense to any Canadian problems.
01:08
So, excited to be here, it's been a great time. A business model, a ridiculously long-term means.
01:26
So I'm just making money, selling something, hopefully relate to you.
01:41
First, well there could be a lot of reasons, maybe these reasons.
02:01
When you want to start your own company, like yourself, in South Korea.
02:21
Works really. My kids love this, they send this to me all the time.
02:48
So I believe that, uh, open source is entrepreneurship. Um, because people who use it aren't satisfied with the status quo. You know, they, uh, they want to make their own stuff. Maybe they don't like working for other people.
03:03
There's arrogance. You know, I mean, you have to, but it's really about self-reliance. And I was doing some study about entrepreneurship. And I came across this internal locus of control.
03:22
They've done a lot of studies and you feel that you're responsible. Coincidence, it's not a lot. What you do, which is not to be, um,
03:49
confused with the dreaded hub control. Which pretty much just went to me.
04:09
So you're different, you're a different breed. Um, you're not risk-averse. I mean, because there is risk in the belt. Which isn't involved in anything. You use, there's risk, but it's minimized because it's a known product.
04:28
Um, so you take on more risk when you start source. And, um, but of course, when you start using off the shelf, it has limitations.
04:47
And so, source world here. But I will contend to you that the level of risk that you're okay with will define the business model.
05:03
So I've talked about some business models. The first one is exciting, isn't it? How do I say that?
05:20
I don't want to discourage anyone. Want to do that. We know that.
05:45
Two year old startup, which was just, so, two years old. So it can happen. So, like I said, don't want to discourage you, but the first thing to do, if you're going to go down this road,
06:00
is get a mentor. Well, you get the first mentor and he piles it up. And they might contradict what the other one says, so the third one allows you to validate.
06:22
Because what's inevitably you're going to have, maybe you have a portion of your company already that might fundfully support their product.
06:42
But, if not, you have to go get venture capitalist money, you have to go get angel investors. He had over two meetings to get his Series A fund,
07:01
all around the United States, and then he had to go, and then investors won result placed. So, let's just go through. Here's a warning. I just bullet point approach it.
07:21
I don't like bullet point slides because they're deep braved. So, pros and cons. It's yours.
07:42
You walk in the password, you go, yay, you won that game. So, that's always fun.
08:06
Some of the cons get way different.
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This idea in the world before you,
08:41
this fail, so you get paid for your work. Your client always tells you exactly what they want. What I would suggest here is getting a very tight scope
09:01
of work and making them sign it. That's tough, but you can, there's ways to manage that. And you may get dollars from supporting the app. Some of the cons, if you're using an open source product,
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if somebody pays you to do it, they might say, you're reinventing something new, and the more work you get,
10:00
easier to get work surrounding you,
10:04
when you're doing stuff by yourself, sometime in the future.
10:26
Of course, you're limited.
10:41
One opposes that.
11:03
But again, the speed demarcables. So, the product, Map Theater, while it's not world renowned,
11:28
that we do have folks using it in the United States, in Vietnam, in China, in the movement of trade.
11:43
So, basically what it is, is our government's permitting that. So, that's essentially what it is.
12:01
And it works on mobile device, but it's mobile. So, we just came to the decision because everything's doing mobile. We had to do something. We wanted to have, and we also knew we could not create anything from scratch.
12:23
So, we found this. Mr. Brian McBride's bootleaf looked at that for us. Not only did we need it, but of course, it didn't have all the functionality,
12:43
so we needed to extend it. And so what we did, is we extended it into Map Theater Mobile, or bootleaf OGC. We kind of, this has been driven by screaming into making a general purpose GIS interface,
13:03
because they liked the tracking also already had, you know, some type of GIS viewer. And they said, if we're going to go with your product, we need something that replaces that with the same thing. So, we kind of got dragged kicking and screaming into doing all this other stuff.
13:21
Printing and so, I'm not trying to arrive demo. Possibly, we'll see how it works out here. So, I'm going to pop a city in Minnesota.
14:08
Some of these are coming from Mapbox. Most of these are coming from GeoServer. We also, where they had all their photos, so these are actually through a little scenario here.
14:34
So, I'm going to search them. And I'm going to say, hey, we've got to find all the poor ash trees.
14:45
Here we go. But now we have to tell people, we're going to cut the trees down by it. And so, we're going to make these bufferable.
15:00
So, we turn them pink. And it defaults to meters. Now, search the one that's pretty slick.
15:57
This tool bar over here has several purposes.
16:02
Measuring, selecting, square there, and a city has parts over it.
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And this is kind of what goes to the presentation.
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Where are we going with that buffering to be able to do units.
17:48
And a crowd sourcing application. Actually, Brian McBride does have building damage to a citizen.
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Giving back. Many ways to give back. Here giving back to the open source community. But we wanted to give back hope. So, what are we giving back?
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So, we're giving back. These are the features. Well, we put a whole lot of time in to include those.
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And so, this is kind of that giving away. It's not to say that we won't roll these out in the future.
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Where can I get it? So, this is where you can get it. But if you go there now. We had a few little tweaks to make just to divide the code up. So, we're planning on doing that next week. So, you can do two things. You can either get a hold of me. This is my information.
19:21
Or, you email me.
19:43
Did we test with GeoServer 2.8? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well thank you for giving me the first question, which I can't answer.
20:34
Yeah! So, get everybody to read it.
20:45
Yeah, so we... And again, you know, what I was saying. You need to be all in on this. You know, we weren't at the point where we were going to be running.
21:02
So, we did some in the Twin Cities area. And they actually have a very good community there. And it was very difficult because many of them just... The whole geospatial thing, they just... It wasn't an application that consumers would use.
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And so, they were just not quite following it. So, it was pretty difficult. So, we had a few meetings and used the other theories of the company.
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