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Funambol & Open Source:creare e far crescere un progetto e una community
Better SoftwareFirenze 6-7 Maggio 2009Stefano Fornari, Funambol CTO
Summary
Today (the project, the company, the team)Funambol I – genesis of an open source project
Funambol II – the project, the tools, the community
Funambol III – the ecosystem
The company
#1 cross-platform mobile open source companyHeadquartered in the US (Silicon Valley)Engineering team in ItalySales presence in the US, Germany, Dubai, Beijinghttp://www.funambol.comA product company
i.e. No consulting
Commercial deployment
Industry recognition
The product/1
“MobileMe” for the massesClient and server componentsCarrier grade serverMany componentsSynchronization serverPush serverInbox listenerPIM listener
The product/2
The product/3
Multi platform clientsWindowsMobile (smartphone & pocket PC)Win32/fat clientsSymbianJ2MEJ2SEBlackBerryiPhoneAndroidMobile/Desktop linux
An online portal (my.funambol.com)
The product/4
LicensingDual licenseAGPL 3.0/commercial
The engineering team
Based in PaviaDevelopment teamPavia, Portugal
QA teamPavia, Palermo, Portugal
Product teamchief architect, scrum master, technical writer, release eng, office managerPavia
Funambol I
The Genesis - Sync4j
Late 2002-early 2003Motivations
Do not reinvent the wheelSpeed-up developmentSpeed-up visibilitySpeed-up adoptionLeading the space
Think big, start small!Finding if there was any existing projectSharing idea with the ownerContributing code (patches, new code)Gaining trust and recognitionGaining write access to the repositoryTaking over project ownership and management
<250
250 – 2,5002,500 – 10,000
10,000 – 25,00025,000 – 50,000
>50,000
Funambol 2.0
Leading the project, starting a community
Early 2004More solid project
Attracting interest in SyncML spaceMany implementations based on
Project moved to the ObjectWeb consortiumMore visibilityBecome a player in encouraging open source adoption in business
organizations
Changed the name from Sync4j to FunambolDual-licenceFunambol Open Source Project Social ContractMaking stronger and better use of community tools
CVS, mailing lists, issue trackers, communication
Funambol 3.0
The ecosystem
Users
Coredevelopers
3rd partydevelopers
Mobile users System admins
Funambol developers External developers
Visible Stealth
The ecosystem
Hired a community manager
Stefano Maffulli
The ecosystem
Hired a community managerFunambol Forge
http://forge.funambol.org
Forge: the place where the ecosystem meets
Lifecycle and Software
Development
StructuredCollaboration
Architecture ofParticipation
Subversion ,Task/Issue Tracking, Project Reporting
Mailing lists, Discussion Forums, Announcements, Documents & Files
Community Portal, Wikis, Content Management, User Roles, Project Workspaces
The ecosystem
Hired a community managerFunambol Forge
http://forge.funambol.org
Code sniper
The ecosystem
Hired a community managerFunambol Forge
http://forge.funambol.org
Code sniperPhone sniper
The ecosystem
Community managerFunambol Forge
http://forge.funambol.org
Conversationshttp://identi.ca/group/funambolIrc.freenode.net #funambol
Code sniperDevice sniperLion sniper
The ecosystem
Community managerFunambol Forge
http://forge.funambol.org
Code sniperDevice sniperLion sniperTransparency
RoadmapBacklog sharingDevelopment plans sharingPublic design discussionsPublic software metrics
The challenge
Commercial vs Open Source development
Commercial vs Open Source features Openness Shared Roadmap Development process integration
Questions?
The following slides are for further discussions
Open source development
Coreproject
Contributions
Funambol development community
Contributors
Externaldevelopers
Funamboldevelopers
Funambol development community
Contributors
Externaldevelopers
Funamboldevelopers core projects
community projects connectors
plug ins OEMs
Developers community
core Funambol developersfull time Funambol employees
core developerscommitted developersowners of a modulealone players or other companies' employees
contributors3rd party developers
Contributors and contributions
contributors do not have write access to the code repositoryfreely offered from developers to the communitytracked in the bug tracking systemreviewed by core developersaccepted and integrated in the main trunk by core developers
core/3rd party development
Funambol provides the framework and API3rd parties develop independentlyFunambol offers the possibility to host the project on the Funambol forgeforge.funambol.org
community supportcore developers take care of the module they are owner