How Not to Confuse Your Open Source Community with Your Customers¶
| Date: | 2012-07-17 |
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| Speaker: | Stephen Walli |
The Gist¶
- Community: People with time, but no money.
- Customers: People with money, but no time.
- You give to the community because they are your testers, evanglists.
- Community provides momentum
- “He who owns the developer base owns the market.”
- What do you want from the community?
- Bees vs. Community - James Dixon’s beekeeper model: The Bees and the Trees.