Building and Maintaining Large Open Source Communities

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast, Gregory Kurtzer shares his experience in creating and guiding multiple open source Linux operating system projects.

Have you ever wondered why there are multiple Linux distro projects in the open source ecosystem? What goes into creating a distro once you have access to the kernel? Gregory shares his experience creating multiple projects, and shares how the motivation and process were different every time.

Also, have you thought about what would've happened if Linus Torvalds had went on to work for a corporate organization as opposed to the Linux Foundation? Well, for a little while he did, and that caused a big disruption in the ecosystem, open source and commercial alike. This example shows very well why you cannot leave the control in other companies' and individuals' hands, when you have hard dependencies on open source projects, and also gives you a hint why single-vendor projects are significant risk factors.

Learn more about why and how community has been key to the success and longevity of the Linux kernel and operating systems to reach the popularity and significance they have today, why non-code contributions are crucial to the sustainability of the ecosystem, why your open source project needs marketing and ecosystem development, and more.

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