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March 2006 DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board Meeting
Open Source Software
Governance
Case Studies
March 2006 DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board Meeting
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Apache software powers 65% of web sites worldwide
501(c)3 non-profit foundation
Reasons for creating ASF Create legal entity Protect contributors from
liability Protect Apache assets
Membership: individual Apache Incubator
Governance and Staffing Board of Directors Project Management
Committees ASF Members Committers Contributors
Funding All-volunteer
staffing/development resources
Donations Corporate investment
March 2006 DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board Meeting
The Sakai Foundation
Collaborative and Learning Environment software
Started as a multi-university collaboration
501(c)3 non-profit foundation
Membership Institutional only 100 member institutions
and commercial affiliates
Governance and Staffing Board of Directors Executive Director-
TBH ~3 technical staff
Funding: membership fees $10K/year, 3 year
commitment for large institutions
$5K/year, 3 year commitment for smaller institutions
March 2006 DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board Meeting
The .LRN Consortium
Collaboration and Learning Environment software
Originally developed at MIT
501(c)3 non-profit foundation
Membership Primarily institutional 25 paying members out
of 120 registered users
Governance and Staffing Leadership team,
technical advisory board and user advisory board
Volunteer Executive Director
¼-time release manager
Funding Membership contribution:
$250/year
March 2006 DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board Meeting
MySQL AB
Database management system
For-profit company 8M installations Employs 275 platform
developers Community contributes
bug fixes and testing
Business model Venture capital
investment $40M in revenue (2005)
Support and subscription services
Sale of commercial licenses (dual-license model)
Franchise of MySQL products and services to value-added partners