Could Alfresco Survive a Zombie Attack?
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The document discusses the survivability of Alfresco in various scenarios, particularly focusing on the viability of its community edition as a free open-source solution. It outlines both negative and positive indicators of survivability along with current community initiatives and identified gaps. The author reflects on potential outcomes if the community does not actively maintain governance and contributions, suggesting a risk of fragmentation and loss of community engagement.
Could Alfresco Survive a Zombie Attack?
- 1. Could Alfresco Survive a Zombie Attack? Jeff Potts, Metaversant Group Founding & Current OOTB Board Member
- 4. We do not want your JMX dump
- 8. Stuff Happens • Companies get acquired. • Companies pivot their business models. • Companies lose interest or shift resources to other priorities.
- 11. Could Alfresco survive without Alfresco?
- 12. Negative Indicators of Survivability 1. Pre-commercial open source success 2. Independent governance model 3. Number of external committers 4. Product complexity 5. Number of external contributions 6. Downstream dependencies 7. Company diaspora
- 13. Positive Indicators of Survivability 1. Install base of strategic accounts with deep pockets 2. Upstream dependencies 3. Community makeup
- 14. What about the Order of the Bee?
- 15. What The Order Does Today • Publishes community success stories • Lists "best" add-ons • Publishes a professional services network • Curates tutorials and articles • Redistributes Alfresco CE with Puppet-based installer, add-ons, content models, settings, etc. (aka Honeycomb) • Organizes and executes an amazing conference
- 16. Our mission is to guarantee the existence of Alfresco Community Edition as a free/libre open source solution for document management. — Order of the Bee
- 17. Survivability Gaps • Public/open governance • External committers • Public test suite • User adoption • Documented and tested upgrade paths between community versions • Lighter-weight community-led distro (Honeycomb w/o Puppet)
- 20. Public Testing
- 24. If we do nothing and something terrible happens • Strategic accounts and partners would take the code and attempt to move it forward • Potentially in their own best interests • Maybe a foundation would be set up, maybe not • Multiple forks, single winner emerges over time • Sad, angry bees
- 26. More on ecmarchitect.com Celebrating more than 10 years covering Alfresco! @jeffpotts01
- 27. Photo credits • All zombie images are from The Walking Dead series from AMC • https://www.flickr.com/photos/coloradofarmbureau/3098582818, by ColoradoFarmBureau • https://www.flickr.com/photos/andybadger/12622731023, by Andy Murray • https://www.flickr.com/photos/frammentidisensi/8600352157, by Emanuele • https://www.flickr.com/photos/erokcom/4486960741, by eric shoemaker
- 28. Photo credits (cont'd) • https://www.flickr.com/photos/vubui/47360830, by Vu Bui • https://www.flickr.com/photos/ca_heckler/8272138700, by ca_heckler • http://freedesignfile.com/220328-cartoon-angry-bee-vector- illustration-03/, by freedesignfile • https://www.flickr.com/photos/3n/3728891766, by Ian Collins