Patrick Ball starts session by asking why do we need PowerPoint instead of Open Source at this conference? No good answer.

Andrew Aitken

from alliance org, open source consulting to Fortune 500

Talks about the value of a commercial ecosystem

He fell in love with a movement, based on Eric Raymond's "the Cathedral and the Bazaar" http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

Healthy commercial Open Source spurs innovation

More than 20 proprietary vendors have open sourced their code in the last month, SugarCRM andFunabol

• Microsoft partnering with JBOSS and SugarCRM
• More than 65% of OpenOffice downloads are for Windows.
• Most important thing in picking OS is the community.

David Geilhufe

Why open source (limiting talk to social change applications)

Volunteer Match and HandsOn Network -- each spent 2 million building 80% same applications for volunteer management.

If build in Open Source, can share.

Innovation -- open source allows you to extend what is there.

Example is Planned Parenthood hacker, released CitiContact (on top of CiviCRM) last week. Can download it today.

The state of open source is that we can sell a huge potential social change, but we have trained NGO's to use commercial RFP process.

NPO CRM market is $80M. What would happen if you invested 10% in open source.

Katrin mentions http://www.openbrr.org/wiki/index.php/Home, "Business Readiness Rating™ (BRR) is being proposed as a new standard model for rating open source software. It is intended to enable the entire community (enterprise adopters and developers) to rate software in an open and standardized way." as a way of figuring out if the open source software you are interested in is ready for adoption.

Zack Rosen

History of CivicSpace.

Started with Dean Campaign as DeanSpace, volunteers put up 150 web sites using it.

CivicSpace a distribution of Drupal + 30 modules and CiviCRM. Based on Drupal Content Management System. there are over 75,000 Drupal websites out there, and 2,000 CivicSpace web sites.

Communities - Drupal, CivicSpace Foundation, OpenNGO

Vendors - CivicSpace Inc, CivicActions, EchoDitto, etc

Shows diagram that open space vendors around CivicSpace have as many employees combined as big vendors to non-profits.(missed some stuff in the middle).

Q & A

Holly had a great bon mot "Just because I question the leadership of open source doesn't mean that I don't love open source". What will it take to get Open Source is more widely deployed.

David Geilhufe responds, three things:
Investment
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Joseph Mouflon asks about Open API / Salesforce?

David Geilhufe

Are Open API's enough?  f well documented, expose most of the functionality in your product, then an API would be enough. As far as Salesforce goes, what happens if Salesforce is aquired by Oracle?