Talking about all things open open source

Talking About All Things Open Open Source Software
Gavin Henrick, Remote-Learner
Presented at
Moodlemoot Canada 2011, Edmonton

Free Redistribution
Source Code
Derived Works
Integrity of The Author's Source Code
No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
Distribution of License
License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
License Must Not Restrict Other Software
License Must Be Technology-Neutral

Allows for better software to evolve by having more people involved in it's creation
The software and the community exist in an ecosystem
Open source software ensures "derived works"

The ease of peer review helps allow for better and safer products
Making sure that new members of the community can engage, learn and contribute in a supportive, positive way
A willingness to share and collaborate on what works and what doesn’t

Choosing the best product for you
Enables choices for services like support
Collaborating with or improving existing works

Finding a way to contribute to a project you are interested in.
Any open source project a sustainable business model is needed to 'keep the wheels turning'.
The OSS movement can be misunderstood by most people.

OLCOS Roadmap 2012 ties open concepts together for identifying Open Educational Resources
the availability of source code for the tools which are used for the OER
Open APIs
Open Access
Open usage (liberally licensed for re-use in educational activities)

Open source platforms used for
Open Educational Resources (Dspace, Fedora)
NDLR http://dspace.ndlr.ie
Jorum http://open.jorum.ac.uk/
Open Access Research (Dspace, Eprints, Fedora, PKP
Trinity College Dublin http://www.tara.tcd.ie/
RIAN http://www.rian.ie/
Digital Repositories
Islandora http://islandora.ca/ (Drupal, Fedora)
Open Courses
Moodle http://hub.moodle.org/

Learning Solutions Consultant
www.Remote-Learner.net
Moodle Partner
USA – Canada - UK

Talking about all things open open source

by Gavin Henrick

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