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OpenVox: Transition from Top-Down Management to Open, Community-Driven Development

Abstract

More and more companies that have built their business on an open source product are changing its license or discontinuing the open source version entirely. Perforce, for example, no longer releases Puppet under an open source license.

In previous years, a vibrant community had already formed around Puppet through Vox Pupuli, contributing many features and tools. However, most decisions were still made solely by Perforce.

As a result of the license change, the community decided to continue development as an open source project - with great success.

In this talk, I will address the following questions:

  • How did we, as a community, respond to this sudden change?
  • How were we able to build a sustainable community capable of handling the workload, and how can others avoid similar challenges?
  • How do you build an open source ecosystem with a community in order to remain independent of individual companies and their proprietary licenses, and to strengthen your own digital sovereignty?

I will provide a detailed look at the successes of the OpenVox project over the past two years, along with an overview of upcoming topics and challenges.

Description

Vox Pupuli is an open, community-driven collective of developers and operators who collaborate on maintaining and advancing tools in the Puppet ecosystem.

The community operates with an open governance model that allows anyone to contribute, from submitting pull requests to taking on maintainer roles. Responsibilities are distributed across contributors, collaborators, and a project management committee, enabling transparent decision-making and scalable collaboration. Vox Pupuli is around for more than a decade and maintains over 400 projects with 250 members.

Bio

Tim „bastelfreak“ Meusel became a Senior Automation IT Consultant in July 2021. Previously, he worked as a DevOps Engineer for GoDaddy EMEA in Cologne, Germany, where he developed and maintained a big public cloud platform. Tim is the driving force behind various open source projects. He is a very active Vox Pupuli Maintainer and Project Management Committee founding member. Tim has been doing work in the DevOps area since 2009 and began persuing Puppet solutions in 2012.