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How to raise millions of dollarsusing open source software
By Arthur RichardsOSCON
28 July, 2011
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Misconceptions
● For-profit organization, making $$$$$$$$● A wealthy investor● Commercial ads● It's cheap, because it's all run by
volunteers
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WRONG
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Reality
● Non-profit organization● Community contributions● No commercial advertisements● Petabytes of data transfer each month● One of the top 5 most visited websites in
the world
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But how?!
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What made us successful
● Open source software and ethic
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What made us successful
● Open source software and ethic
● Data driven
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What made us successful
● Open source software and ethic
● Data driven
● Iteratively building resilient systems and messaging
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Powered By...
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Architecture: LAMP...
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...on steroids.
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Every time you reinvent the wheel
children cry.
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Resiliency, fault tolerance and flexibility
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Becoming agile
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[edit] this fundraiser
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Community involvement
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Daily totals graph
Transparency
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A/B Testing
VS.
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Data driven
vs
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Data driven
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Mistakes.
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Confronting Jimmy fatigue
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Effective community involvement
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Sane development practices
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More automation, testing and removing single points of failure
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To sum up...
● Open source software and ethic
● Data driven
● Iteratively building resilient systems and messaging
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Resources● Wikimedia Foundation is HIRING!
http://jobs.wikimedia.org
● Live fundraiser reporting: http://tinyurl.com/6x9suz
● Fundraiser report, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/3nvo4tj
● Our code:http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawikihttp://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/wikimedia
● IRC:#wikimedia-fundraising
● My contact:[email protected] (IRC: awjr, [[User:Awjrichards]])