Minisymposium Presentation

Kitware is a 25-years old company, leader in developing open source software for science and artificial intelligence, like CMake, VTK or ParaView. This talk will explore the challenges of maintaining these open source tools for a long time period, via an analysis of Kitware’s current and future business models. We’ll particularly emphasize the limitations of these models, and evaluate the alternative of working with a foundation to answer the following questions from an industry perspective. Who is responsible for the day to day maintenance of the software? Who is responsible for the release of the software? Who is responsible for the roadmap and vision of the software? And ultimately, who pays for it?