Matt Asay
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Asay: “Community Capitalism” presentation online

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Jun 29, 20071 min

I recently keynoted the JA-SIG Conference in Denver, CO. For those who don't know (as I didn't), JA-SIG is a Java organization focused on the Higher Education industry, with a strong open source bent (Sakai, uPortal, etc.). As such, I talked about "Community Capitalism," focusing on how non-profit organizations can get involved in open source, both corporate and community open source. I firmly believe that non-p

I recently keynoted the JA-SIG Conference in Denver, CO. For those who don’t know (as I didn’t), JA-SIG is a Java organization focused on the Higher Education industry, with a strong open source bent (Sakai, uPortal, etc.).

As such, I talked about “Community Capitalism,” focusing on how non-profit organizations can get involved in open source, both corporate and community open source. I firmly believe that non-profits are particularly valuable to open source, because their motivations and needs differ from the corporate world. In short, they can contribute somewhat less selfishly.

You can download the ODF file here. Yes, I’m being intentionally difficult by only providing it in ODF format. 😉

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Matt Asay

Matt Asay runs developer marketing at Oracle. Previously Asay ran developer relations at MongoDB, and before that he was a Principal at Amazon Web Services and Head of Developer Ecosystem for Adobe. Prior to Adobe, Asay held a range of roles at open source companies: VP of business development, marketing, and community at MongoDB; VP of business development at real-time analytics company Nodeable (acquired by Appcelerator); VP of business development and interim CEO at mobile HTML5 start-up Strobe (acquired by Facebook); COO at Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux company; and head of the Americas at Alfresco, a content management startup. Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and holds a JD from Stanford, where he focused on open source and other IP licensing issues. The views expressed in Matt’s posts are Matt’s, and don’t represent the views of his employer.

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