Making FOSS your full-time job

1. What is FOSS? (FOSS doesn’t always mean you can’t earn money from it)
2. Why FOSS though when you can earn money directly by closed source software?
  - Good for Community - Contributions, OSS friends
  - Good for Adoption by users
  - Great for brand and credibility - More contributions and stars
3. Example of some great FOSS companies? (Gitlab, Databricks, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Cal, Posthog, Requestly)
4. Different Ways of making money
  1. Running Ads
  2. Donations
    - How?
    - Popular projects that runs on donations?
    - Some Feuds - Donations doesn’t work always (core-js, faker-js)
  3. DeepDive - Open Core Model
    - What is Open Core Model?
    - What licenses to choose? (MIT, AGPL, GPL…)
    - How to earn money using OpenCore
      - Cloud Hosted Version
      - Open Premise Enterprise Licenses
    - What to lookout for? Eg. Big Enterprises exploiting licenses to host their own cloud version
  4. What models and license some companies are using?