To describe the core principles and characteristics on open standard,
To identify the business ready applications that implement open standard.
THE CHALLENGE
Open Source for Education (0S4ED) is not just about no-cost technology.
… It builds the capability to live-out the principles of open standard in the acquisition, development, distribution, and utilization of software and content in the community of digital technology users, developers, mentors, social marketers, and integrators.
THE CHALLENGE
Open Source for Education (0S4ED) is not just about no-cost technology.
… It calls for competencies that allow work, creativity, participation, and learning to happen at any kind of technology operating platforms, functions branding, data file types, product attributions, and pricing schemes.
THE CHALLENGE
Open Source for Education (0S4ED) is not just about no-cost technology.
… It enables digital inclusion that concretizes information for all, education for all, e-citizenship for all, and productivity for all through the integrative use of information and communications technology for development.
THE CHALLENGE
Open Source for Education (0S4ED) is not just about no-cost technology.
… It promotes 21 st Century Literacy in Digital Age by using and improving the business ready software and web services that the open source communities are sharing globally.
OPEN STANDARD: DESCRIPTION
Open Standards are standards made available to the general public and are developed (or approved) and maintained via a collaborative and consensus driven process.
"Open Standards" facilitate interoperability and data exchange among different products or services and are intended for widespread adoption .
OPEN STANDARD: ISSUES
Competency Building:
Interoperatibility Requirements versus
Commercial Vendor Specifications
Technology Development and Use:
Dependency and Exclusivity versus
Choice and Sharing
Technology Acquisition and Support:
Lock-In versus
Open-Option
PRINCIPLES & CHARACTERISTICS
AVAILABILITY
MAXIMIZE END-USER CHOICE
NO ROYALTY
NO DISCRIMINATION
EXTENSION OR SUBSET
PREDATORY PRACTICES
-BrucePerens
Open Meeting
Consensus
Due Process
Open IPR
One World
Open Change
Open Documents
Open Interface
Open Use
On-going Support
-Ken Krechmer
APPLICATIONS e-Citizen Card Authoring & Publishing Communication & Collaboration Digital Safety & Security e-Services Systems Word Processing Calculation Worksheet Multimedia Presentation Video Production Image Processing Desktop & Web Publishing Internet Browsing E-Mail & Messaging WebCasting Net Telephony Anti-Virus & Spam Back-up Utilities Encryption e-Commerce e-Learning Application & Databases OPEN STANDARD ACTUALIZATION LICENSING SCHEMES OPERATING ENVIRONMENT FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTES DATA & FILE TYPES PROTOCOL REFERENCES SECURITY REFERENCES
PRODUCTS e-Citizen Card Authoring & Publishing Communication & Collaboration Digital Safety & Security e-Services Systems OoO WRITE OoO CALC OoO IMPRES AVIDEMUX, WINKS GIMP, INKSCAPE SCRIBUS, KOMPOZER FIREFOX, CHROME THUNDERBIRD e-PRESENCE TRIXBOX CLAM AV, WINPOOH COBIAN, 7ZIP AXCRYPT ZEN CART A-TUTOR, MOODLE PHP, AJAX, MYSQL OPEN STANDARD SAMPLES GPL, CC, Public Domain Linux, Windows, Macintosh I/O Interfaces, Procedures doc, odf, png, avi, html TCP/IP, POP3 Encrytion
OPERATING SYSTEMS Ubuntu Desktop Linux PCLinuxOS Desktop
DIGITAL SAFETY & SECURITY SmoothWall Firewall DansGuardian Content Filtering Shibboleth Web Single Sign-On Purgos Computer Management
DIGITAL SAFETY & SECURITY ClamWin Antivirus WinPooch Anti-Malware
AUTHORING & PUBLISHING OpenOffice Scribus Desktop Publishing NVU/Kompozer Web Authoring GIMP Image Editor Avidemux Video Editor Audacity Audio Editor
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