Bitkom Forum Open Source 2024 in Erfurt
Triggered by a provocative announcement for their The Cuckoo in the Tendering Process: When the vendor loses to itself panel discussion by Peer Heinlein ( Heinlein Support ) and Johannes Loxen ( Sernet ) on LinkedIn, I attended the 10th Bitkom Open Source Forum in Erfurt . This free one-day conference on open source in a business context has become a highly informative event - that is well worth attending. This year's motto of The future of open source - fair, regulated, intelligent was exactly what I needed at the moment, and I spent the whole day in the Open Source - regulated track. Cockoo or What Is My Business Model? The panel discussion was about the challenges Peer faces in marketing OpenTalk , the open source videoconferencing software that Heinlein Support has developed over the last few years. Competitors seem to be offering OpenTalk hosting packages in public tenders, even though they don't contribute to the code or fix bugs. In the end, Peer cannot compete wi