Open source tools,
demoed by their makers.
Seeing is Believing.
Let’s make Open Source Great Again.
Your project is not losing on quality. It is losing because almost nobody has watched it run. OpenDemo is the fix: bring the project and fifteen minutes, and we record you showing it working, publish it as recorded, write it up, and put it in front of the people who decide what their teams run. Open to maintainers and to companies with open source initiatives, and taking part costs nothing.
Interviewed by
Prateek Bhajanka
Founder and CEO, FieldCISO Advisory
Former Gartner Analyst and MQ Author
What you get
A 15 minute demo, published as recorded
A technical write-up by a practitioner
Promotion to your target audience
Free. No fee to take part, at any stage.
Open source barely features in most security stacks. Not for lack of good tools.
There is a capable open-source project for almost every job in security, and hardly any of them reach the stacks that need them. Not on merit: a commercial product arrives with a demo, a walkthrough and someone to answer questions, while the open-source one arrives as a repository most buyers never hear about. Nobody adopts what they have never seen. So the awareness has to be built deliberately, and that is what this is.
Nobody evaluates what they cannot see
A repository tells a reader what your project claims to do. Fifteen minutes of you driving it shows them, and showing is what turns a stranger into an evaluator.
The people who decide never find you
Open source travels bottom-up through engineers, and the person who signs off sits a level above them. That layer does not browse repositories. This audience is security leadership.
Missing from the shortlist costs more than a missing feature
Buyers compare what is in front of them. Your project sits in the same room and the same format as the vendor demos, which is the only way it gets compared at all.
Contributors cannot join what they never found
Being found by the next maintainer is the hard part of running a project. People contribute to tools they have understood, and understanding starts with watching someone use one.
And what that awareness does for the community
What a participating project gets, for free
Three things, and every one of them is distribution. No fee to take part, no fee to be published, nothing to buy afterwards. If that seems odd for a Demo Room that also carries vendor demos: the vendors are why we can run this part at no cost.
A 15 minute demo, published as recorded
The tool running, driven by the person who built it, on the shelf security buyers are already browsing when they are deciding.
A technical write-up by a practitioner
Someone who has run security operations explains where your project fits, in the words buyers actually search with. Independent, and not a press release.
Promotion to your target audience
Sent to the CISOs, architects and practitioners in the FieldCISO network, rather than left to be stumbled upon.
Open to
The call for participation is open
Tell us who you are and which project you want to show. We reply with the recording slot, the format, and the short list of things we need from you.
Put your project where buyers are looking
Open to maintainers of open-source security projects and to companies with open source initiatives. You will need about an hour in total: a few minutes here, and 15 minutes live with Prateek showing the tool doing its job.
Prefer a conversation first?
insights@fieldciso.com