{"guid":"3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1","title":"MOD: building a sustainable Linux Audio based business","subtitle":null,"slug":"lac2018-102-mod_building_a_sustainable_linux_audio_based_business","link":"https://c3voc.de","description":"\nThe MOD Project: an overview of the history, some comments and\nconsiderations about an Open Source Linux Audio centric hardware business\nattempt and some insights for the future.\n\nMOD was born in 2010, first debuted at LAC in 2013, crowdfunded a mass\nproduct in 2014, delivered it in 2016, consolidated in 2017 and got funded\nin 2018.\n\nThese 8 years have been quite interesting and a lot has happened along. I\nwould like to go over this history and present what were the main\ndifficulties found along the way. I’d also put on the table some\nconsiderations about the Open Source Linux Audio centric aspect and its\npros/cons. Finally, I’d like to share some insights and considerations for\nthe future, both for our company as for the Linux Audio Community and the\npossible efforts towards attaining a sustainable business model with the\ncommunity efforts.\n        \n\n\nThe MOD Project: an overview of the history, some comments and\nconsiderations about an Open Source Linux Audio centric hardware business\nattempt and some insights for the future.\n\nMOD was born in 2010, first debuted at LAC in 2013, crowdfunded a mass\nproduct in 2014, delivered it in 2016, consolidated in 2017 and got funded\nin 2018.\n\nThese 8 years have been quite interesting and a lot has happened along. I\nwould like to go over this history and present what were the main\ndifficulties found along the way. I’d also put on the table some\nconsiderations about the Open Source Linux Audio centric aspect and its\npros/cons. Finally, I’d like to share some insights and considerations for\nthe future, both for our company as for the Linux Audio Community and the\npossible efforts towards attaining a sustainable business model with the\ncommunity efforts.\n        ","original_language":"eng","persons":["Gianfranco Ceccolini"],"tags":["lac18","102"],"view_count":243,"promoted":false,"date":"2018-06-09T00:00:00.000+02:00","release_date":"2018-07-15T02:00:00.000+02:00","updated_at":"2026-01-03T00:46:30.499+01:00","length":3825,"duration":3825,"thumb_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/lac/lac18/102-hd.jpg","poster_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/lac/lac18/102-hd_preview.jpg","timeline_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/lac/lac18/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1-timeline.jpg","thumbnails_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/lac/lac18/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1-thumbnails.vtt","frontend_link":"https://media.ccc.de/v/lac2018-102-mod_building_a_sustainable_linux_audio_based_business","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1","conference_title":"Linux Audio Conference 2018","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lac18","related":[{"event_id":5592,"event_guid":"7ea126c8-5684-5217-91a0-a52dbcd5453d","weight":1},{"event_id":5593,"event_guid":"c9c5ed0c-0b40-51db-a30f-ca6b72d83420","weight":1},{"event_id":5596,"event_guid":"941d66c1-b9f8-5327-a157-44401fd3a554","weight":9},{"event_id":5599,"event_guid":"a421f5fb-5423-572d-a7e5-c12cb71628df","weight":9},{"event_id":5601,"event_guid":"7388bd9b-e82c-5f4d-988a-4e293c165f81","weight":20},{"event_id":5603,"event_guid":"1d09e62a-d833-5ef3-800a-836d61167bc2","weight":19},{"event_id":5604,"event_guid":"70d43993-3f4d-5b18-8303-703bdfe41e85","weight":10},{"event_id":5607,"event_guid":"d360b86d-4efa-5caa-a6a3-87fde4b48cdf","weight":18},{"event_id":5609,"event_guid":"02b0ad5d-58d9-59e0-a443-19d33ce729b7","weight":10},{"event_id":5686,"event_guid":"71ef66ba-882a-54e4-acb0-90c07a0c8c63","weight":9},{"event_id":5692,"event_guid":"d47b09a5-145d-5109-9780-73e2c68f78e0","weight":11}],"recordings":[{"size":450,"length":3825,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_hd.mp4","state":"new","folder":"h264-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2018-07-15T16:01:37.354+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lac/lac18/h264-hd/lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_hd.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/26808","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lac18"},{"size":37,"length":3820,"mime_type":"audio/opus","language":"eng","filename":"lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_opus.opus","state":"new","folder":"opus","high_quality":false,"width":0,"height":0,"updated_at":"2018-07-15T16:02:35.609+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lac/lac18/opus/lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_opus.opus","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/26809","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lac18"},{"size":58,"length":3820,"mime_type":"audio/mpeg","language":"eng","filename":"lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_mp3.mp3","state":"new","folder":"mp3","high_quality":false,"width":0,"height":0,"updated_at":"2018-07-15T16:03:08.918+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lac/lac18/mp3/lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_mp3.mp3","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/26810","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lac18"},{"size":129,"length":3825,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_sd.mp4","state":"new","folder":"h264-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2018-07-15T16:18:10.541+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lac/lac18/h264-sd/lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_sd.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/26811","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lac18"},{"size":170,"length":3825,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng","filename":"lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_webm-sd.webm","state":"new","folder":"webm-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2018-07-15T16:23:09.506+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lac/lac18/webm-sd/lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_webm-sd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/26812","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lac18"},{"size":481,"length":3825,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng","filename":"lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_webm-hd.webm","state":"new","folder":"webm-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2018-07-15T17:06:19.584+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lac/lac18/webm-hd/lac18-102-eng-MOD_building_a_sustainable_Linux_Audio_based_business_webm-hd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/26813","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/3d83e6db-b841-500d-bbcb-9cb282c1c9f1","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lac18"}]}