Ask HN: Open-source business strategy meetup/group in the SF Bay Area?
Choosing an open-source business model and accompanying licenses are big decisions for a startup. There's a very delicate balance between contributing code to the commons, fostering a community and being profitable, and there's no one right way to build a scalable business around open-source that doesn't devolve into a consulting and support business model that doesn't scale revenue and headcount wise and becomes a time vampire diverting engineering from building a better product.
With this in mind, is there a group or meetup in the SF Bay Area or an online discussion group where founders and key employees of startups using or exploring open-source business models can get together, network, get advice and bounce ideas of each other?
I'm doing a lot of research on this myself, but there is no substitute for talking to others who've been down this path before and have wisdom and knowledge to share.
With this in mind, is there a group or meetup in the SF Bay Area or an online discussion group where founders and key employees of startups using or exploring open-source business models can get together, network, get advice and bounce ideas of each other?
I'm doing a lot of research on this myself, but there is no substitute for talking to others who've been down this path before and have wisdom and knowledge to share.