How Can We Define the Value of Open Source Work?
Talkat OSPOCon @ Open Source Summit Europe 2024 · on Wednesday, 2024-09-18· at 11:55· Room 0.96-0.97 (Level 0)·
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Survey of valuation approaches compares total cost of ownership and failing ROI attempts to COCOMO estimates (COCOMO applied to Kubernetes) and DORA's four metrics for quality, arguing numbers need trend and context. Recommends using lines added and removed from pull-request payloads not raw LOC, considers Debian popcon usage to detect under/over‑production risk, cites an EU GDP-style estimate based on surveys of ~900 companies, and flags emerging tools (scarf) and privacy‑first telemetry methods.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Open source value discussion
- 4:13Why defining value is hard
- 12:20Software cost estimation models
- 20:05Social models for open source
- 23:57Economic models and limits
- 31:18Measuring adoption without telemetry
- 35:50Valuation challenges and approaches
- 39:01Q&A
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