Live from Paris!
Day 2 of the #05F5 started with Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud, on converting OSS engagement into customers. Matt Barker, co-founder of Jetstack offered tips on open source sales; and Peter Zaitsev, co-founder of Percona, shared strategies on moving from startups to enterprise deals. More exciting talks and workshops are lined up throughout the day. Stay tuned for more updates and pictures! 📸

Live from Paris!
Day 2 of the #05F5 started with Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud, on converting OSS engagement into customers. Matt Barker, co-founder and CEO of Jetstack, offered tips on open source sales; and Peter Zaitsev, co-founder of Percona, shared strategies on moving from startups to enterprise deals. More exciting talks and workshops are lined up throughout the day. Stay tuned for more updates and pictures! 📸

Why we created the #05F5? Here's why: Proud to see the open source community come together.

Live from the 05F5! Day 1 features a warm welcome from Emily Omier and Remy Bertot. We've enjoyed insightful talks from open source founders like Michael Widenius (MariaDB), Amandine Le Pape (Element), Pierre Burgy (Strapi) and many more. Stay tuned for more updates and pictures from the event! 📸

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Open source founders often struggle to build a community for themselves. That's why Remy Bertot from passbolt and Emily Omier announced the #05F5. Check out their recent piece in the New Stack to find out why they think this summit is essential. And if you can't make it this year, sign up for the newsletter and stay in the loop for the 2025 edition.

Read more about why the open source business founders need community: https://thenewstack.io/open-source-founders-need-community/

Visit 05F5: https://05f5.com/

It's easy to find people talking about the advantages of running an open source business: Yes community! You'll have magic 🏒growth. But is it possible that it's not all paradise?

Geoff Olliff, COO of Portainer, is going to lead a workshop on the hard truths about running an open source business. If you'd like a chance to see what others struggle with and how they overcome those struggles you should join us.
Join us for #05F5 on May 27-28th in Paris. Check out other talks https://05f5.com/

Thank you to MoonLight Marketing, Eclipse Foundation, Daytona and Cisco for believing in #05F5 and sponsoring the event!

Thank you to Cisco for sponsoring #05F5 as a founding sponsor, and for sponsoring our happy hours! Thank you to Stephen Augustus for making this happen.

Thank you to MoonLight Marketing, Eclipse Foundation, Daytona and Cisco for believing in #05F5 and sponsoring the event!

Thank you to Daytona for sponsoring #05F5! We're excited to meet Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukic in person later this month!

Thank you to MoonLight Marketing, Eclipse Foundation, Daytona and Cisco for believing in #05F5 and sponsoring the event!

Huge thank you to the Eclipse Foundation for sponsoring #05F5, and to Florent Zara and Gaël Blondelle specifically. Gael is going to lead a workshop on the pros / cons of donating a project to a foundation. https://05f5.com/schedule/donating-a-project-to-a-foundation @EclipseFdn

Thank you to MoonLight Marketing, Eclipse Foundation, Daytona and Cisco for believing in #05F5 and sponsoring the event!

Huge thank you to MoonLight Marketing and founder Sara E. Davila for sponsoring #05F5! Sara is also going to share her expertise on how OSS companies can get the most out of events. https://05f5.com/schedule/getting-the-most-out-of-events

We sometimes talk about 'moving up' from small deals to large deals, but what if you start out by targeting large organizations?

At Open Source Founders Summit Paul-Henri Pillet, CEO and co-founder at Gatling, is going to be leading a workshop about how to effectively target large organizations — including from day 1.

If you're a leader at an open source company and would like to be a part of that conversation, you should get your invite here: http://05f5.com/request-invite

Why does the world need another open source business event? 🤔

Most open source conferences are very tech-focused and sometimes miss the question of how someone can get paid working on open source or often focused on DevTools and VC-backed companies - ignoring the broader and diverse ecosystem of open source companies. Hear more on the need for the #05F5 event by listening to Emily Omier and Remy Bertot talk: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/emily-omier-and-remy-bertot-talk-about-open-source/id1514646781?i=1000643350601

📅 Join us in Paris May 27th and 28th. https://05f5.com/request-invite

Calling all #opensource founders! Don't miss the chance to connect with like-minded innovators at the Open Source Founders Summit 2024. Whether you're bootstrapped or venture-backed, gain valuable insights and support from the community. See you in Paris! https://hubs.la/Q02r27cW0

Ever wondered why a surge in open source users doesn’t translate to equivalent customer growth? Michael Widenius will talk about how open source companies need to simultaneously and intentionally work on both user and customer growth — and how to do it — at Open Source Founders Summit. https://05f5.com/schedule/user-growth-customer-growth

Join us May 27-28th in Paris. 📅

Open source founders, do you ever struggle with how to balance building an open ecosystem with maintaining your competitive edge?

Amandine Le Pape will be talking about how Element does just that at Open Source Founders Summit, this May 27 - 28th in Paris. Yes, it’s possible to support your own competitors and still build a healthy business: https://05f5.com/schedule/building-an-open-ecosystem

Ever wondered why the open source dream often clashes with reality? You launch a project expecting swift community adoption and straightforward revenue, but instead face limited interest and tough adoption trajectories.

At Open Source Founders Summit, Garima Kapoor of MinIO will talk about how they've achieved widespread adoption and turned that into tangible revenue. Join us at #05F5 May 27-28th in Paris. https://05f5.com/schedule/translating-adoption-into-commercial-success

Open source founders, ready to level up your sales game?

Matt Barker is both an open source founder and a career salesperson. At Open Source Founders Summit he’ll go deep on both how to improve your sales success in general as well as how sales is different at open source companies.

Save the date for #05F5, May 27th - 28th in Paris!

https://05f5.com/schedule/the-blessing-and-curse-of-selling-open-source

Open source founders, is it time to move from selling to startups to landing big enterprise deals?

Peter Zaitsev managed that transition at Percona. At Open Source Founders Summit, he is going to share the changes in sales strategy, product and services and internal skills sets that allowed Percona to start landing larger deals. 🚀

Join us at #05F5, May 27-28th in Paris, to get strategies to help your company start playing with the big companies. https://05f5.com/schedule/selling-to-enterprises

You’ve got an open source project and you’re ready to monetise: Should you go SaaS or open core?

🚀 Join Pierre Burgy at Open Source Founders Summit on May 27-28th in Paris where he will talk about why Strapi added a SaaS product in addition to their open core product, why he’s convinced SaaS is often the best monetisation strategy and how your entire GTM motion is different for SaaS versus open core. https://05f5.com/schedule/gtm-saas-vs-open-core

Many open source founders count on using their OSS community to drive commercial adoption, only to find out it's not as easy as they expected.

At Open Source Founders Summit in Paris, Frank Karlitschek will discuss how Nextcloud turns open source community engagement into robust commercial leads and customers. Discover how you can employ similar strategies and tactics to enhance your OSS lead generation.

More details here: https://05f5.com/schedule/generating-leads-from-your-oss-project