I’ve been working with Open Source, running an Open Source focused consultancy, and persuading big companies against Intellectual Property hoarding for years now. It’s not like other businesses, it’s waaaaaaay better. Sometimes it’s incredible to be standing on the shoulders of such giants, and sometimes I stand proselytising in a wilderness of blind procurement departments and ignorant requirements. Sometimes my team and I develop solutions for clients and compete with others in the same space, and sometimes we sit down with our “competitors” and collaborate on moving WordPress forward together.

I want to talk about the open source principles that unite many of us at WCEU, and how you can marry those with solid business principles to come up with a winning formula for your clients, your self and the wider world.