Abstract¶
Open source projects share many attributes with for-profit commercial projects and open source can have a bigger impact on a broader array of users. OS project owners face several choices for successfully creating a community and finding support for the project’s sustainable development. I’ll relate the lessons learned from working with one-hundred NSF-backed open projects through its Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems (POSE) program. What contributes to a project’s success? What are some barriers to that success and how can they be overcome? I’ll look at governance, sustainability, and how to obtain a deeper understanding of a project’s ecosystem.
David Charron | UC Berkeley¶
David Charron is a continuing lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He has thirty-five years of experience with technology commercialization. He has taught innovation, entrepreneurship, and investing at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business since 2003. He is the lead faculty in the NSF and NIH I-Corps programs and is the architect of the new Pathways for Open-Source Ecosystems program. He is actively involved in coaching healthcare innovators at UCSF. Mr. Charron has started several companies and actively advises and invests in new ventures. He has held leadership positions at Berkeley, run incubators and accelerators, and worked across corporate, academic, and government sectors.