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Liz
Ryan
Senior Product Marketing Manager
CloudBees
Liz Ryan is Senior Manager in Product Marketing at CloudBees, leading the sales enablement team and the solutions marketing function. Before CloudBees, Liz spent two years at Sonar building the company's first buyer personas, owning strategic positioning and messaging, and helping grow the user base from 6 million to over 7 million. A frequent webinar host and published contributor, Liz specialises in messaging that works for developers, their managers and the executives above them, which is rarely the same message.
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04 November 2026 12:00 - 12:30
Monetising open source without losing the community
Every commercial open source company has this conversation eventually, and how it is handled decides whether you get revenue or a fork. Key learnings: - Where to draw the commercial line so it reads as fair rather than extractive - Signals that an open source user is ready for a commercial conversation, and signals they never will be - How to talk about money with a community that did not sign up to be a lead The session works through how different companies have drawn that line, what the reaction taught them, and what they would do differently now. Practical rather than philosophical, and drawn from the times it went badly as well as the times it went well.