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Managing Open Source Releases of a Cloud Platform

Adam Kalsey (Tropo)
11:00am Friday, 07/29/2011
Cloud Computing
 Location: Portland 251
Tags: cloud, release_management, commercial, product_management

Tropo is a cloud communications platform for voice, SMS, and IM. In addition to the hosted service, we have opened the source of the core platform. In this session, we’ll talk about the lessons learned from running a cloud service and a parallel open source project. We did a lot wrong, and we got many things right. We’ll discuss what we’ve learned about product management, release management, marketing, and third party licensing.

  • Source Control – How we sync our internal source code with our external open source repository
  • Release management – How testing, releases, and change notifications differ between hosting and open source. Releases to one lag behind the other, so how do you manage that?
  • Marketing – How do your open source offerings affect the cloud offerings? Should you market them both through the same web site?
  • Licensing – If your cloud product contains services, features, or technologies that are licensed from third parties, how does your open source release cope?

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Adam Kalsey

Tropo

Adam Kalsey has been an internet entrepreneur since 1995. He’s the Product Manager for Tropo and and a developer advocate at Voxeo, evangelizing Voxeo to developers and startups. He was a co-founder of IMified, where he created the leading platform for Instant Messaging applications, and joined Voxeo through the acquisition of IMified in June 2009. Previously, he was founder and CTO of Pheedo, a pioneer in RSS advertising and had served as VP of Product for cloud computing and advertising companies. Adam’s passion for startups led to his co-founding SacStarts, a Sacramento entrepreneur community. Adam blogs about technology, user experience, and baseball at Kalsey.com and can be found on most social services as akalsey.