Sandro Groganz, Open Source Marketing Consultant sun microsystems

Interview with Terrence Barr, Community Advocate, Java Mobile&Embedded Platform

Monday, December 1st, 2008

A video interview with Terrence Barr is now available online on InitMarketing.tv where he provides some valuable insights in community building and he points the finger at a dilemma that every OSS business faces related to its community efforts:

We hardly ever can make the case â€œgive us $10,000, weâ€™ll be able to generate X revenueâ€. Thatâ€™s just a very difficult equation to make.

Watch the interview with Terrence Barr about building Open Source communities at InitMarketing.tv.

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Age of Peers co-founder Sandro Groganz is an expert in the field of open source marketing. He started Initmarketing, the Open Source Marketing Agency, which subsequently merged into Age of Peers. He served as Vice President of Marketing at Mindquarry, an open source startup financed by Hasso Plattner Ventures, and Vice President of Communication at eZ Systems, the creator of the open source content management system eZ Publish. Groganz also has a solid background as a PHP developer, consultant, and author, and he has contributed to a number of books on LAMP programming. For more information, visit www.ageofpeers.com.