[值得关注] ROSS Index: The fastest-growing open-source startups

[will-ww]

在 coss.community 上看到的一篇文章：Real-time Open Source Indexes: Databases, Headless CMSs and Static Site Generators

一个叫做 Runa Capital 发布的一个季度性的开源指数报告：ROSS Index (https://runacap.com/ross-index/)

简直是为我们定制的，在他们的这个基础之上，插入我们的活跃度指标与影响力指标，应该立即就可能看到更多有洞见的东西，特别是和投资端的数据联系起来的时候。他们其实也在不断更新与迭代相关指标，希望能够看的更深入，同时还推出了一些有意思的工具，类似：Awesome list，Growth Benchmarks，Badges，都有很好的参考价值~

Runa Capital 在 medium 上的主页参见：https://medium.com/runacapital

非常值得更多的挖掘~

其中还有个叫做：Open-Source Database Index 的东西，聚焦数据库方向的，对我们来说同样是个很好的参考，特别是对 @birdflyi

同样，把这套东西复制到国内，结合”中国开源项目商业公司“清单，立马就可以出来了~

这两天看了下 OSS Capital 的数据，受冲击很大，COSS 的万亿级市场即将到来~

💡 通过商业思维连接一切~

[will-ww]

如果能够找到一个感兴趣的头部投资机构，完全可以联合发布类似的，多样化的、周期性价值报告~

[wangleo61]

找雪哥推荐哈

[AliceCodeZhang]

好奇上面的图COSS里面有Gitlab 为什么没有Github

[wangleo61]

张老师，貌似Github本身不开源 发件人: Yanbin ***@***.***> 发送时间: 2022年7月8日 9:33 收件人: ***@***.***> 抄送: ***@***.***>; ***@***.***> 主题: Re: [X-lab2017/open-wonderland] [值得关注] ROSS Index: The fastest-growing open-source startups (Discussion #122) 好奇上面的图COSS里面有Gitlab 为什么没有Github

[will-ww]

再补充几个 Open Source Benchmarks：

• COSS Index
• BOSS Index
• Open100

[bifenglin]

这个benchmark是怎么定义的。。。我看是OSS的一些数据统计分析和项目排名。

[will-ww]

这个benchmark是怎么定义的。。。我看是OSS的一些数据统计分析和项目排名。

嗯，你可以抽空看看，就是些统计指标算的，在 Tbench 的论文中，这种就是属于“最佳实践”类型的 benchmark 了~

[will-ww]

今日好图：Open Source Is Eating Software FASTER than Software Is Eating The World

[wangleo61]

这条曲线会交汇么 ：）

[will-ww]

Sure~

• Open Core: Open source eating software from the inside-out. Closed Core: Open source eating software from the outside-in.
• Open source alternatives will soon be over. They will become defaults, not alternatives.

[will-ww]

继续连接两类数据：就业市场，投资市场

就业市场数据：

• https://www.trueup.io/
• 有专门的 Open source 板块：https://www.trueup.io/open-source
• 该工具本身也是非常值得研究

投资市场数据：

• https://www.koyfin.com/
• 还不会玩，COSS 周报每周都会用这个数据源来看整个 COSS 的行情
• 非常强大、有免费基础版本、非常值得探索

[will-ww]

关于COSSI的信息，可以参考这篇文章：https://www.coss.community/jj/the-100-billion-commercial-oss-index-cossi-511h

Here is some commentary on the data tracked in COSSI:

• Company Name (pretty important detail)
• Year Founded (looking at this for all the companies offers some rough insight into how long — on average — it takes to reach a baseline level of maturity)
• Total amount of VC money raised (exactly how capital-intensive is it to build a “successful” COSS company?)
• Total # of Employees (how many people does it take to reach $100M+ in commercial OSS revenue?)
• Estimated Revenue (emphasis on estimated, but more on this soon)
• Estimated Valuation (even more of a grey area and valuations are meaningless until exits happen, but this is fun to compute, even heuristically)
• Public or Private (is the company stock liquid on a public exchange or is it private?)
• Exit Outcome Size (how much the company exited at, if they did?)
• Exit Date (when did they exit, if they did?)
• Technology Area (what layer in the evolving tech stack does this company predominantly serve?)
• Monetization / Business Model (how does the company make money?)
• Core Project (name and link to the core OSS project in question?)
• OSS License (what is the OSS license of the core OSS project the company relies on? if many projects, what is the primary/dominant license?)
• Foundation-Based (is the core project in a foundation or not?)

Data sources:

• LinkedIn for employee count (very accurate)
• Talking with VCs and founders for revenue and valuation #s (when I can’t/don’t engage these sources, I have a heuristic that is quite accurate)
• Crunchbase for funding (which is usually conservative since CB omits seed/A/B extensions and other notes that are unreported)