Why Onno-Consulting.Com
If your company or organization is looking:
- to create successful software developer and software user communities,
- to improve the success and impact of your current community, or
- to create fruitful collaboration through consortia or joint ventures
then I believe I can help.
I bring to the table many years of hands-on, international experience in building developer relations programs and software communities, launching large scale open source software projects, creating and managing industry consortia, and leading engineering teams. I have a pragmatic focus combining creativity with teambuilding.
When we engage I help you articulate your project’s goals and implement a flexible plan towards those goals. My objective is to help avoid many common mistakes and difficulties in achieving a successful and thriving community: not knowing what success looks like, “if you build it they will come”-assumptions, internal conflicts about the purpose or even the existence of the effort, balancing commercial and non-commercial influences whether externally or internally. My aim will be to effectively match ideology and reality. And during the effort to also train your organization to enable to stand on its own feet.
Starting a community, inter-company collaboration or a consortium is – relatively speaking – easy; causing it to be active and thriving the next days requires significant effort. In my career I have been part of successes and also some failures which has given me insight into what will likely work and what will fail, and I love the opportunity to share that expertise with you.
