At the Plone Conference 2014 in Bristol, Guido Stevens presented the Plone Intranet Consortium to an audience of Plone core developers. The presentation focused on the need for a new business model for open source development, and the specific traction we're achieving within the Consortium already.
Plone Conference 2014 - The Plone Intranet Consortium
The "spare time" model of doing open source is broken. We need a better model. In the Plone Intranet Consortium, a dozen Plone companies are jointly investing in the creation of a high-quality out-of-the-box open source intranet platform based on Plone. What is different is not just the funding model, but also the design-first approach we're taking.
Slides of the presentation are available on SlideShare:
Project Mercury
The Consortium is now working on creating the alpha release, codename: Mercury, which is scheduled early 2015. We'll inform a wider audience via a website and a series of workshops, in the run-up to the Mercury release. Stay tuned!