Open source has won. How do we avoid dying from success (panel)

RCheesley
Vishalghyv
rachel_norfolk
Baddy Sonja Breidert, Cristina Chumillas, Eriol Fox

Join us on this panel to discuss with project maintainers, users, business owners and other actors in the open source community what's the future of open source, the challenges we are facing in our different roles, and what can we all do to make the whole ecosystem fair and future proofed.

As discussed, three simple questions:

- Introduction pitch of every speaker and quick opinion on the state of open source in 2020 (10 to 15 approx minutes total, 2 to 5 mins each)
- What do we mean as open source has won -> Alex + ALL (5 mins approx)3
- Is the current situation sustainable? (around 10 mins)
-- Companies preying on OSS projects -> Makers and Takers post from Dries
-- Age of contributors -> can we make the project more appealing for a younger audience? More open to a bigger type of contributors (ie design, documentation, PM, …)?
-- Does attracting more diverse users help? -> Gen
- QA turn for audience (5 to 10 minutes)

Backup questions
- Burnout,
- Security,
- Maintenance,
- Other growing technologies (SaaS Content Mgt systems, …)
- How do we fix it? Ideas:
- How can communities, individuals and companies help?
- Are there any business models that could help?

*Session Materials*

When & Where

Time: 
Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
Room: 
Main Stage