This document is a presentation by Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of Apereo Foundation, introducing Apereo. The presentation discusses how Apereo serves the academic mission by fostering collaboration and sustaining open technologies to support learning, teaching, and research. It provides details on Apereo Foundation membership and describes Apereo's model as a hybrid, federated network of peers and software communities that pool resources to meet common objectives while remaining self-governing.

1. Introducing Apereo
Serving the Academic Mission
PESC Fall 2013 Data Summit
Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Apereo Foundation
ian.dolphin@apereo.org
September 2013
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8. “ ... collaborate to foster, develop,
and sustain open technologies and
innovation to support learning,
teaching, and research... "
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17. THE BROADER LANDSCAPE
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19. OPEN SOURCE INITATIVE AFFILIATE
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20. Software communities which
are largely self-governing, but
bound by common mission and
Foundation provided services.
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21. Slide thanks to Yves Epelboin, UPMC
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25. THE CATHEDRAL AND THE BAZAAR
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26. “If you have ever been in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar
when it’s raining, you’ve probably noticed that the roof
leaks and that there is water running down some of it’s
streets. Or perhaps you’ve been there the next day and
experienced the musty smell of damp, moldy walls.”
ISTANBUL: Hurriyet Daily News | 2/12/2010
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40. Centralised
Decentralised
Figure 1 Centralized, Decentralized and Distributed Systems (Paul Baran, 1964)
“On Distributed Communication Networks”
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Regional Communities
Horizontal Communities

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43. Apereo: a hybrid, federated network of peers.
Pooling resources to meet common objectives.
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46. BREAKING DOWN SILOS
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