March 17, 2015

Hilton Austin Downtown
500 E 4th St
Austin, TX
United States


Description

Join us at SXSW for a talk from our CEO Ed Schipul

 

Proprietary to OS: Giving Away Six Million Is Hard

After 15 years running a successful business, Ed Schipul released to the world his source code for his proprietary software, Tendenci. Foreseeing the impact of the cloud, mobile, and GIS, Ed knew he had to change his business model or become irrelevant. Open source was the path to future sustainability and innovation.

There were however, seemingly insurmountable challenges. Tendnci 5, the first open source platform for nonprofit organizations, had to be completely rewritten from .Net, ASP and SQL to Python, Django and PostgreSQL. From Github to cloud software, he had to choose all the tools to put in place to support his rewritten product and new architecture.

Lessons learned from the transition include the importance of testing and how to make your application’s architecture more scalable as well as what open source tools have proved to be most valuable. Ed will share his reasons for thinking that all of this is the best choice for both the product and the development community.



Date and Time

Tue, March 17, 2015

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
(GMT-0500) US/Central

Location

Hilton Austin Downtown

500 E 4th St
Austin, TX
United States

Hilton Austin Downtown
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500 E 4th St


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Hilton Austin Downtown

500 E 4th St
Austin, TX
United States



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