Florent Zara
Florent has been involved (both personally and professionally) in the FLOSS community since 1999. Professionally, Florent has worked for nearly 20 years in a consulting company as an Open Source advisor for large companies, helping them with software quality, Open Source governance, licensing, Innersource, as well as change management. Today, as Open Source Services Team Lead, he's helping (new) Eclipse members and projects better understand, manage and master Open Source. He also participates actively in the OSPO Alliance and the Good Governance Initiative. On his personal side, he's an administrator and board member at LinuxFr.org (reference French-speaking, community-driven website about Free and Open Source software).
Session
Temurin is nearing 500M downloads, with growing enterprise adoption. Yet, many users aren’t supporting the project. This talk explores how Eclipse Foundation’s membership and revenue models generate sustainable funding while maintaining vendor neutrality. We'll also discuss understanding user needs and the real costs behind "free" software.