Building an Open Source Strategy Before Building Your Product – Ari Vaniderstine, Embark Studios

For many companies, an open source strategy is a way to give back to the community or to raise awareness about a product. But what if you built your open source strategy alongside, or even before, your product?

This talk breaks down this seemingly backwards strategy of building alongside the greater developer community and gives the audience guidance on embracing open source even before releasing a product. We’ll look at Embark Studios, a Swedish game studio formed just over a year ago, which has been making a splash in the Rust community and in the broader open source community. The talk will take a deep dive into the strategy behind their new approach to technical platform development and their decision to embrace open source on day 1.

Setting Up A 3O – Offline, Open, Office – Leiska Evanson, Evasons Strategy Consultants

Cloud infrastructure has revolutionised the speed with which companies can spin into existence – but cloud doesn’t work well for companies that face infrequent Internet access, foreign exchange strictures or reliability challenges.

In this talk, I will go through a few Open Source projects that can be cobbled together to build a working business infrastructure that can withstand the occasional Internet disconnection.

Some projects featured:

• GnuCash/Beancount
• Libre Office
• Mail-in-a-Box

Presenters:

Ari Vaniderstine

Leiska Evanson