Open Source Club: Marketing & Design of Open Source Products

​Open source is king. Once computing companies (of the 70s) realised that software takes a lot of time to make, they started keeping it for themselves. In response, the free and open-source software movement emerged. Today, it's hard to consider infrastructure-level software products that are not open source. Imagine if Python or Kubernetes or Git were closed source.

​Yet all these open source projects are products. They target an audience inside a competitive open market and they still win. How do they do it and how can we do it too?

​How would we design and market an open source product? This is what we will talk about in this event, along with questions such as, what does a website for an open source product look like? And, how does one market an open source product?

​We’ll explore this by studying some of the most popular open-source products, specifically those that started from scratch without serious capital: Git, GitLab, SourceHut, Python, Ruby on Rails, Vim.

​Join us to talk about the above and to meet those who are interested in the above!