Ask HN: Open-source business strategy meetup/group in the SF Bay Area?
Choosing an open-source business model and accompanying licenses are big decisions for a startup. There's a very delicate balance between contributing code to the commons, fostering a community and being profitable, and there's no one right way to build a scalable business around open-source that doesn't devolve into a consulting and support business model that doesn't scale revenue and headcount wise and becomes a time vampire diverting engineering from building a better product.
With this in mind, is there a group or meetup in the SF Bay Area or an online discussion group where founders and key employees of startups using or exploring open-source business models can get together, network, get advice and bounce ideas of each other?
I'm doing a lot of research on this myself, but there is no substitute for talking to others who've been down this path before and have wisdom and knowledge to share.
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