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Return on investment of Open Source Software

Return on investment of Open Source Software. An Ever-increasing Return on Investment. Closed Source Software Dev . $$$. Organization 1. Software. $$$. Organization 2. Software. $$$$$$$ $$$$ 0110 0110. $$$. Organization 3. Software. Open Source Dev. Model . Org. 1: Code in.

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Return on investment of Open Source Software

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  1. Return on investment of Open Source Software An Ever-increasing Return on Investment

  2. Closed Source Software Dev $$$ Organization 1 Software $$$ Organization 2 Software $$$$$$$ $$$$ 0110 0110 $$$ Organization 3 Software

  3. Open Source Dev. Model Org. 1: Code in Org. 2: New feature funders $$$ Org. 3: Documentation in, code out 101100011 0110 0110 DOCUMENTATION 0110 1001 0110 1100 OS Community $$$$$$$ 0110 0110 Org. 4: Community-funded Developers 0110 1100 0110 1100 0110 0110 Org. 5: Customer of contributor Org.6 0110 110 0110 Org. 6: Consultant/ Contributor 1010 1010 $$$ 0110 1100 $$$ IDEAS 0110 1100 0100 $$$ Org. 7: Ideas and money in, code out 0110 Org. 8: Code and money in, code and money out

  4. Acquiring upgrades in both models Acquiring Closed Source Software Acquiring Open Source Software $$$ OS Community 0110 0110 $$ $$$ Org. 1 Org. 2 0110 0100 0110 Software 0110 0110 Upgrading Closed Source Software Upgrading Open Source Software OS Community 01100110 1001000100 101010010 10100100 $$ 0110 0010011 0110010 Org. 1 Org. 2 0110 0001 1000 0 Upgrade

  5. Ever-increasing ROI How To • Evaluate strength of community around a project • Contract companies and individuals that are heavily involved with the project (and ask their advice). • Contribute back bug fixes and documentation • Don't start new open source projects alone, someone else is likely working on it already • If someone else is not working on it, then build on top of and improve existing communities and projects/toolkits • Become a part of the open source ecosystem • Easy to do in GeoSpatial, just join OSGeo!

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