How to position an open project
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The Community-Driven Marketing Journey: How to avoid missing potential customers and collaborations
In today’s article I’ll cover a problem I see most open source and community projects missing: Designing a marketing and community journey that attracts clients and turns passive users into active participants that make the project awesome.
What should become open source and what should stay proprietary?
What should be legitimately opened or closed? As a business, it’s hard to contemplate opening something when most forces push us to patent or protect our ideas to raise funding and whatnot.But are businesses and society missing on bigger opportunities when we close something?
The radical power of Open source MedTech: The community creating affordable healthcare.
Here's how the Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²) found a way to dramatically lower costs with the goal of making health care available to people worldwide.You’ve probably never heard of them, but it’s a project that could inspire serious change in how the medical field develops its tools, and could save us collectively billions of euros in healthcare by taking the price of MRIs from over 1.5…
How a musician's collective carves a pathway for platforms to be owned by their communities
It’s one of the greatest times to create an alternative to the monopolistic platforms we used to love but feel trapped by today.
How Project Kamp is building a sustainable future in front of millions of people
In this week’s newsletter, I’ll show you how Dave Hakkens built several open movements to advance a regenerative vision for the tech and design world.
How to share your innovations - without worrying about clones.
A quick take on how to build in public for open creators
How Arduino empowers its community to contribute, and how this drives its business
Part Threee into how Arduino created a viral hardware product
How Arduino designs and spreads virally an open product people love
Part Two into how Arduino created a viral hardware product
How Arduino set the foundation to create an open source movement
Part One into how Arduino created a viral hardware product
Makair: How to solve a crisis by creating a low-cost ventilator in community?
How Makair developed in a month a ventilator that was 10 times cheaper than the existing offers by breaking down how they rallied a community around a super ambitious mission.
How to measure the ROI of open source communities
👋 Hey, it’s Jaime. Welcome to my weekly newsletter, where I share how thriving open-source projects grow their communities.
How to shift your brand's power from your products to your community
Branding can be a confusing concept. We often think of it as a logo. But brands and logos are not the same thing. And that leads to many people spending too much time arguing about how they look as opposed to thinking about what they say and stand for.
How to keep investors happy when you have an open source startup
In this week’s newsletter, I’ll share a bit about my early financial mistakes with open source, and we’ll cover what to look after to keep your open project financially sustainable, and eventually what you need to fulfil to go after private investments.
How the Climate Fresk helps over one million people understand climate change
In 2018, the Climate Fresk launched a workshop that spread like wildfire.This workshop has been translated into 45 languages and has helped over 1.2 million people in 157 countries understand the mechanisms of climate change and take action. And they’ve done this with the help of over 70.000 volunteers and a team of 35 people.
Why (and how to) create attractive open source design
Without spending a fortune to make it happen
How Serbian activists created a Revolution, and what we can learn from it to change things
👋 Hey, it’s Jaime. Welcome to my weekly newsletter, where I share how thriving open-source projects grow their communities.
How a group of Berkeley researchers took over the chip industry
Up until 2015, the chip industry was controlled by three players: Intel, ARM, and AMD. But now everybody is quickly moving elsewhere.What changed? RISC-V released an open source instruction set architecture for developing chips. And the plan worked.Here’s the story of how RISC-V has grown into an industrial ecosystem capable of challenging its historical players.
How Vitalik Buterin kickstarted the hottest cryptocurrency movement
In 2014, Vitalik Buterin was introduced by his father to an idea called Bitcoin.It was the first spark to kickstart the Ethereum movement, which became, at one point, the hottest cryptocurrency worth over $568 billion.Here's the fascinating story of how he got it started:
The Cycles of Bundling and Unbundling to Unleash the Public Sector's Creativity
There is a very strong myth that has taken root in our economies: The public sector is inefficient, ineffective, and un-innovative. Where possible, it should get out of the way and let the private sector do the work, reaping the financial rewards while the risks of failure remain with the government and citizens.