I presented this at the 2008 Social Networking and Business Collaboration Conference in Sydney. My topic was to talk about..." What’s under the hood? – Identifying the open source tools fuelling today’s social sites."

1. CLI information video What’s under the hood? – Identifying the open source tools fuelling today’s social sites 25 Nov 2008 Dheeraj Chowdhury Assistant Director – Learning Applications and Multimedia [email_address]

2. Change Agent a bit like everybody Who am I ?

3. Schools CLI DET NSW Corporate Services TAFE and Community Education Strategic Planning & Regulation Fostering and promoting innovation in teaching and learning

4. Multimedia resources and capability development Multimedia resources and capability development

5. E-learning services and search and discovery E-learning services / search and discovery

9. Open source software (OSS) began as a marketing campaign for free software http://www.wikipedia.org

10. Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things http://www.wikipedia.org

12. Linux Perl Open Social Moodle Apache Scuttle MySQL Sakai Ruby Audacity Accessible (W3C) Web 2.0 Drupal Java ELGG PHP GIMP

16. Frameworks and Platforms

17. Google’s Social Design Best Practices

18. Engage Quickly

19. Mimic Look and Feel

20. Enable Self Expression

21. Make it Dynamic

22. Expose Friend Activity

23. Browse the Graph

24. Drive Communication

25. Build Communities

26. Solve Real World Tasks

27. CURLy Case study: Code name: Social bookmarking site Release name: CURLS (beta) Brief: Collaborative bookmarking site for teachers and students to share links to teaching and learning sites. Timeframe: 70hours (2weeks) Cost: Less than $5,000 Tool: Open source – Scuttle similar to Delicious Audience: >50,000 staff Integration: DET NSW Portal authentication Communication: Viral Launched: 12 Sep 2008

30. Social site fuel

31. Under the hood

32. Presentation name v.100 Acknowledgements and thank you’s the web (www) Flickr.com (http:www.flickr.com) Contributors (bloggers)

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