MariaDB Foundation Membership
- 1. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation1 * * Supporting continuity and open collaboration
- 2. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation2 * * The MariaDB Foundation is funded by Booking.com, MariaDB.com, Alibaba, IBM, DBS and many others. Please support us to guarantee that our mission succeeds!
- 3. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation3 The MariaDB Foundation mission Supporting continuity Make sure that MariaDB continues to thrive and stay maintained as long as there are users who need it. Open collaboration Be a place where everybody can contribute and collaborate using the best open source methodologies. Drive adoption Make sure MariaDB is universally available and included on all major platforms, serving an ever growing community of users and developers.
- 4. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation4 * * Supporting continuity ● The Foundation has the relevant technical assets and tools (website mariadb.org, version control repository, build and release systems). ● The Foundation has copyright via staff work and contributor work (CLA). For the rest (some copyrights, trademark etc) the Foundation has irrevocable licenses to use (e.g. GPL, BSD).
- 5. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation5 * * Open collaboration ● Publish code in real time, not just at release time. ● Discuss and plan on public mailing list and IRC. ● Public bug tracker, transparent progress and priorities. ● Respond quickly to pull requests on Github and to bug reports that have patches attached. ● Keep documentation up-to-date, develop documentation alongside code and allow also contributions in documentation. ● Regular, free-to-attend developer meetups. ● True open source, not just code dumps.
- 6. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation6 * * Welcoming new contributors
- 7. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation7 ”Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow” – Linus's law
- 8. © 2017 MariaDB Foundation8 Benefits of widely used open source software like MariaDB ● Quality: The bigger the community is, the faster the software evolves. ● No lock-in: Software stays open source, ecosystem has multiple vendors. ● No dead-end: Big user base guarantees availability of software and people. Foundation m em bership is the only w ay to achieve all of these!
- 9. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation9 * * Foundation staff ● Currently 7 people ● Makes MariaDB available to as many users as possible (porting, packaging) ● Single contact point for collaboration and contributions – Make sure all pull requests and patches are responded to promptly and properly reviewed – Respond at security@mariadb.org, collaborate with security teams and publish CVEs
- 10. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation10 * * Foundation development work Focusing on issues that benefit as many users as possible ● Work with community contributors to steward patches through the integration process ● Develop new features, tests, continuous integration and QA, packaging, tracking sister projects, security etc ● Dedicated employee for documentation ● Grow new developers ● Maintain mariadb.org ● Increase adoption ● Connect users with specific needs to service providers
- 11. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation11 * * Achievements in 2015 ● Release of 10.1, includes built-in Galera cluster support and new encryption features (contributed by Google), better performance and improved security features ● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 60 attendees ● Ported to ARM, AIX, System Z, Power 8 etc. ● Increased community and adoption ● Read report at https://mariadb.org/the-year-2015-in-mariadb/
- 12. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation12 * * Achievements in 2016 ● Development of window functions, common table expressions, MyRocks... ● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 70 attendees ● Ported to MIPS, HPPA; refreshed for MacOS X ● Increased community and adoption – Debian: from an option to the default – WordPress.com
- 13. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation13 * * Achievements in 2017 ● Developer unconference in New York with over 60 attendees, first ever user conference M|17 ● MariaDB 10.2 released ● Improved Windows compatiblity ● Increased community and adoption – New Foundation members: Alibaba, Tencent, IBM, Microsoft ● Developer unconference in Shenzhen with over 50 signups
- 14. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation14 * * Towards the best solution in the world Using the open source software development model
- 15. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation15 Corporate membership ● Seat on the board: best opportunity to influence the future and present a point of view. ● MariaDB.org: Great visibility among technical people (potential employees, high-income customers). In 2017 MariaDB.org had 2,5 million page views. ● Open source has a good public perception. Being a member of the MariaDB Foundation can help strengthen an image of being modern and progressive. ● Platinum – 100 000 € ● Gold – 50 000 € ● Silver – 15 000 € ● Bronze – 5000 €
- 16. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation16 Use MariaDB, support MariaDB ● A strong Foundation behind MariaDB is in the long-term interest of all MariaDB users. ● The foundation acts as a hub where different software developers come together, both physically and virtually, to collaborate on new features, fix software bugs, resolve security issues and make new releases. ● The foundation facilitates the collaboration of individual developers, company sponsored developers and academic researchers in ways no for-profit entity could do. ● It benefits a company using MariaDB to be involved with both the Foundation and the commercial product and service providers. The Foundation serves a role that commercial companies cannot. Secure the future of the infrastructure your company uses and become a sponsoring member of the MariaDB Foundation.
- 17. © 2018 MariaDB Foundation17 For more information: foundation@mariadb.org CEO Arjen Lentz arjen@mariadb.org
Editor's Notes
- #2: The Foundation exists to secure the long-term success and sustainability of the MariaDB project, and the foundation's mission includes being a hub for collaboration around MariaDB. The foundation also has the necessary governance in place so that it can facilitate collaboration, even of parties that have conflicting interests.
- #3: The foundation is funded by individual sponsors and corporate sponsors, like Booking.com, Automattic, Parallels, Verkkokauppa.com and others. The foundation is funded by individual sponsors and corporate sponsors, like Booking.com, Automattic, Parallels, Verkkokauppa.com and others
- #4: With this background it is quite suitable for me to talk about collaboration in open source, as I have a lot of examples to back up my story. Naturally most of my examples are from MariaDB but not exclusively. I also have examples from other projects I've been involved in, and I am certain that the principles at work in these cases are quite universal for open source software in general.
- #6: Mailing list, chat, bug tracker. Plans and discussions in the open. Pull requests get processed and bugs at least commented.
- #9: Alternative is to keep a patch to yourself and then having to refresh it on every upstream release. A way to learn new things. Getting credits for authorship will improve reputation as an expert. Possibility to make an impact in the world, gives meaning and is fun! Why graphics or documentation? It will be nicer to read or look at. Localization? No other way to get it. Special features? Must become integrated in the rest of the software.
- #15: Collaboration is a very interesting topic because the idea of pooling talent from around the world to solve a common problem is very compelling. Think about it: you have a problem that can be solved with software, and as the software is universal, you'll have people from all around the world, working together to produce the best possible solution to the problem. This has never before been possible until now, thanks to the global internet network and the intanglible nature of the software. How many of you have participated online in some global collaboration? It is actually very exiting to do, because as all results are public, at any given time a new person might pop up and present a new solution that challenges the old solution. And as this process goes on you start to be pretty confident that the solution you end up with is state of the art. The process however not simple, and it does not happen automatically. Today I'll share some examples of how the process can be organized and facilitated.