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]

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

Multimedia resources and capability development Multimedia resources and capability development

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

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

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

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

Frameworks and Platforms

Google’s Social Design Best Practices

Engage Quickly

Mimic Look and Feel

Enable Self Expression

Make it Dynamic

Expose Friend Activity

Browse the Graph

Drive Communication

Build Communities

Solve Real World Tasks

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

Social site fuel

Under the hood

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