Bio

Karsten Wade is a 15 year IT industry veteran, a long time Red Hat
associate and Fedora Project contributor, and general open
sourceiconoclast.  As a member of the industry leading open source
communityteam at Red Hat, Karsten works on open source ISV partnering
projects.

Summary

Strategic open source project work oftens takes a backseat to
quarterly profit chasing.  However, if you intend to have a business
next year that is built on producing and selling open source software,
you need to start yesterday improving your integration with important
open source communities.


Abstract

In balancing profit making with open source research and development,
your organization makes short term tactical decisions in development,
testing, and release engineering that may come to cost you
significantly down the road.  A lack of standard packaging and
deployment across heterogenous environments makes the problem worse.

When it comes to community and industry leading open standards on
packaging, installing, and maintaining an open source architecture,
the Fedora Project and Red Hat provide leadership, practices, and
tools that clear the way for your ISV to succeed.

In this talk, learn about why your ISV needs to take the time right
now to prepare yourself for a long term open source future.