Open Source Center Consulting Services

The Open Source Center’s advisory team provides open source projects with a menu of consulting services. They have been created to address common pitfalls faced by digital public goods and this list is organized to be reflect the broad service themes: technical, community, legal/IP, sustainability.

The Open Source Center team has developed a series of workshops and exercises to help digital public goods plan for their long term sustainability. The workbook is available for teams to guide their internal strategic product planning.

The long term maturity and financial support of digital public goods is critical for sustainability. The Open Source Center has developed simple financial and maturity models to allow teams to quickly evaluate software projects’ maturity lifecycle, as well as their potential revenue streams and business models.