Connecting Community to Commercial Product

Not sure when the right time to monetize is? Unsure how you’ll pass open source purity tests while still getting your investors a fabulous return? How tightly should you control your open source software’s roadmap?

I’m moderating a panel at HeavyBit’s DevGuild conference this Thursday, May 4th, with Adam FitzGerald, VP DevRel at HashiCorp, Shanea Leven, Cofounder & CEO at CodeSee, and Tim Glaser, Cofounder & CTO at PostHog. The general topic is connecting community to commercial product, but they’ll be talking about a wide range of topics related to building an open source company — including why one might not want to be open source in the first place.

Join us if you can!

And PS, my suspicion, after talking about monetization with a lot of founders of open source companies, is that many questions, including ‘is now the right time to monetize’ are often only possible to answer for sure in hindsight.