Presentation given at the eLearning Network's Open Source event on 12th July 2013, featuring top ten open source e-learning development and delivery tools.
Introduction to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)Dong Calmada
An attempt to orient the unconverted and the semi-converted on the history and benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Created for the PANACeA FOSS training in Bangkok (Feb 2010).
F. Questier, Free and open source software, workshop for Lib@web international training program 'Management of Electronic Information and Digital Libraries', university of Antwerp, October 2015
Introduction to research on open source softwareMatthias Stürmer
Open source software is being used by small and large companies, governments and other organizations in many business-critical systems. Nowadays there are approximately 1 million open source projects on the software market being developed and maintained by unpaid individuals as well as professional software companies and industry players. Research about technical aspects of open source software, business models, management and governance practices as well as community dynamics and contributor's motivations is abundant.
In this three day course master students of information systems get an introduction into current research about open source, read and present academic papers on open source, and write an own research proposal, conference submission or working paper about a specific topic of their interest. This may cover issues about open source in automotive industry, reuse of open source components, business models with open source, inner source development within pharma and many more.
What is Open Source Software (OSS) and what is the idea behind it? What are examples for popular Open Source Software, what are the Advantages about using OSS, what are the disadvantages.
Open VS Closed Source Software: Which is more secure?
This is the presentation given at the quarterly "Free Beer Sessions" answering the age old question of whether open source software is more secure than their closed or proprietary counterparts.
The presentation gives an overview of the philosophies and history driving both methodologies and provides case history examples to answer the question.
Introduction to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)Dong Calmada
An attempt to orient the unconverted and the semi-converted on the history and benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Created for the PANACeA FOSS training in Bangkok (Feb 2010).
F. Questier, Free and open source software, workshop for Lib@web international training program 'Management of Electronic Information and Digital Libraries', university of Antwerp, October 2015
Introduction to research on open source softwareMatthias Stürmer
Open source software is being used by small and large companies, governments and other organizations in many business-critical systems. Nowadays there are approximately 1 million open source projects on the software market being developed and maintained by unpaid individuals as well as professional software companies and industry players. Research about technical aspects of open source software, business models, management and governance practices as well as community dynamics and contributor's motivations is abundant.
In this three day course master students of information systems get an introduction into current research about open source, read and present academic papers on open source, and write an own research proposal, conference submission or working paper about a specific topic of their interest. This may cover issues about open source in automotive industry, reuse of open source components, business models with open source, inner source development within pharma and many more.
What is Open Source Software (OSS) and what is the idea behind it? What are examples for popular Open Source Software, what are the Advantages about using OSS, what are the disadvantages.
Open VS Closed Source Software: Which is more secure?
This is the presentation given at the quarterly "Free Beer Sessions" answering the age old question of whether open source software is more secure than their closed or proprietary counterparts.
The presentation gives an overview of the philosophies and history driving both methodologies and provides case history examples to answer the question.
Short presentation about the social values of open source, for the Intel Youth Enterprise session in Amman, attended by technology and social entrepreneurs in Jordan.
"All these initiatives run on technology, but as they have such deep social impact, they need technology with a social spirit; Open Source", said Issa Mahasneh, president of the Jordan Open Source Association.
Constructing its presentation on three main factors, Mahasneh described the social values of Open Source, and explained why the future is open and why Open Source can help social entrepreneurs and their projects.
Based on a 2011 study by D. Pidsley, Mahasneh evaluated several values for Open Source, starting from open standards, innovation, collaboration and comunity, user led development and cost effectiveness. "These are not only related to technologies used", explained Mahasneh, "but this methodology is viable in any work and process of social enterprise".
Mahasneh stressed on the importance of open standards, and how openness itself is not only important, but vital to social impact. He presented the example of the lack of a standard document format that caused loss of life and damage to property, according to the Minister of Science and Technology of South Africa, "responding agencies and non-governmental groups were unable to share information vital to the rescue effort. Each was using different data and document formats. Relief was slowed, and coordination complicated", said the minister.
Sir Tim Berners Lee, creator of the World Wide Web WWW, was also taken as an example of openess in social project, "the Internet", said Mahasneh, "had its success for his openness".
Other open source initiatives that were mentioned included, Ushahidi an open source platform that was used for critical events around the world, lately it was used in the geo mapping issues in the Lebanese elections and to map sexual harassment in Egypt. "The open source nature of Ushahidi led to Innovation", explained Mahasneh, inviting participants to create their own ideas for the good of Jordan based on freely available open source projects.
The president of Jordan Open Source Association ended with some quick ways to enter the Open Source community and gain benefits from it.
If the vision of the social sector is that it will solve our world's most "wicked" problems, the social sector is set up wrong. In this presentation, Alison Gold of Living Cities, proposes open sourcing social change as a strategy for reorienting the sector away from the advancement of organizations, and toward maximizing impact. Closing presentation to the DC Lean for Social Good Summit on March 26, 2014.
Every time you switch on your computer, you see a screen where you can perform different activities like write, browse the internet or watch a video. What is it that makes the computer hardware work like that? How does the processor on your computer know that you are asking it to run a mp3 file?
Well, it is the operating system or the kernel which does this work. A kernel is a program at the heart of any operating system that takes care of fundamental stuff, like letting hardware communicate with software.
So, to work on your computer you need an operating system (OS). In fact, you are using one as you read on your computer. Now, you may have used popular OS’s like Windows, Apple OS X but here we see what Linux is and what benefits it offers over other OS choices.
What’s the Impact of Open Source on the Future of Supply Chain? slide deckLora Cecere
What’s the Impact of Open Source on the Future of Supply Chain
Developments in open source software happen because of the power of community. Developers can access code and create functionality and applications that will drive improvements and opportunities along a supply chain. Many technology vendors are embracing this model to provide platforms to manage your business. But how do you proceed?
We’re all trying to find that idea or spark that will turn a good project into a great project. Creativity plays a huge role in the outcome of our work. Harnessing the power of collaboration and open source, we can make great strides towards excellence. Not just for designers, this talk can be applicable to many different roles – even development. In this talk, Seasoned Creative Director Sara Cannon is going to share some secrets about creative methodology, collaboration, and the strong role that open source can play in our work.
Open Source can be a great foundation for building a business. That being said, keeping the balance between community building and commercial activities can be tricky. In this talk I want to share my experience and practical tips, which can help you leverage OS and boost your business, while meeting fantastic people and learning a lot in the process.
by Giulio De Donato - The last few years have been incredible for PHP, the community, thanks to best practices emerged from the Medieval period. The talk shows the best of the PHP Renaissance, combining concepts and approaches of different philosophies and languages in order to let you create the perfect PHP application. Take part in the Renaissance, today! Warning: - Vintage concepts as Object Oriented Design will be administered to attendees - Violent scenes against monolithic culture, will be shown during the talk - Some practices will be stolen from: SOLID princ., DDD, SOA - You will take PHP seriously.
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Together with Lesya Dymyd and Adrien Badina of 2CRSi, and Steve Helvie of OCP we talked about innovation, standardisation, open source and we went through the roadmap of OCP for 2020.
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- OCP in the world: how the integration and the adoption of OCP standards vary from one continent to another.
- The current challenges with OCP adoption and OCP organization.
- The path from innovation to standardization.
- The contemporary scenario: who’s innovating and who’s not?
- What are the hottest upcoming tech areas?
- Planning and executing: how a big organization should embrace innovation?
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Crossing the low-code and pro-code chasm: a platform approachAsanka Abeysinghe
Organizations are now using low-code and pro-code tools to build digital experiences internally and externally. However, not having the right alignment between these two approaches slows down delivery.
Different developer personas that work in silos, no connection between low-code and pro-code applications, low-code creating unmanageable shadow IT applications, no single codebase or build pipeline, and interruptions to the professional developer flow are some significant drawbacks.
In this session, Asanka will look at a platform approach to bridge the low-code and pro-code chasm.
INTERFACE, by apidays - Crossing the low-code and pro-code chasm: a platform...apidays
INTERFACE, by apidays 2021 - It’s APIs all the way down
June 30, July 1 & 2, 2021
Crossing the low-code and pro-code chasm: a platform approach
Asanka Abeysinghe, Chief Technology Evangelist at WSO2
Presentation of the open source BIM collective during the W78 CIB conference in Nice, France 2011.
Featuring BIM tools for sketchup, IfcOpenShell, BIMserver, BIMsurfer, IfcWebServer, UBERviewer.
Containers, Serverless, Polyglot Development World, And Others…10 trends resh...PROIDEA
During this presentation, you will learn about the 10 changes that might reshape the developer tools market in the next 10 years. Jarek will discuss containers, serverless functions, and how it all supports an agile and CI/CD experience. The move to a polyglot development world means most applications will be written in a mix of languages, with developers favoring tools that help them navigate easily between languages. Jarek will also walk us through the evolution away from stand-alone developer workstations toward cloud-and-container based development environments offered as a service.
What's new in the latest source{d} releases!source{d}
We recently announce source{d} 0.11, 0.12 and 0.13, two releases with lots of new features and performance improvements. From windows support, to port management, C# language support and new SQL querying, there is a lot for you to get excited about. We also discussed why you should care about Engineering Observability and what are some of the top use cases for source{d} in enterprises.
Sustainable Open Source; Balancing Business and CommunityMindtrek
Track | The Future of Open Source Business
Tomas Gustavsson, Chief PKI Officer, Keyfactor
Mindtrek Conference
3rd of October 2023.
Tampere, Finland
www.mindtrek.org
Holistic design - An integrated approach to accelerate performance improvementEpic
Lars Hyland, Head of Consulting Services at Epic, presented a seminar at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in June 2014. The session explored Epic's ASPECT model of onboarding and induction and DRIVE model of performance support in detail to help improve the performance of your employees, both new and established.
User Experience vs. the Visual Designer - LINE CommunicationsEpic
Paul Thorpe, Head of Visual Design and User Experience Design (UX) at our fellow LTG company, LINE Communications, presented a seminar at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in June 2014. It covered what UX is and why it's so important today, as well as touching on some of Paul's personal thoughts on designing great experiences.
Tin Can expert Andrew Downes presented a webinar at iMoot in May 2014 about the way Tin Can interacts with Moodle. Find out more about the exciting ways you can use these learning technologies as part of your own e-learning strategy.
20 tips for mobile learning in Moodle – Moodlemoot 2014Epic
Epic's Head of Learning Platforms Mark Aberdour presented a Pecha Kucha presentation at Moodlemoot 2014 in Edinburgh. This quickfire session presents 20 tips for making the most of Moodle in mobile learning, including the use of audio, creating mobile learning logs and using QR codes.
To find out more about the event, visit the backchannel on Twitter using #mootuk14.
Using mobiles to support active learning with Moodle – Moodlemoot 2014Epic
Epic's Head of Learning Platforms Mark Aberdour presented a session about using Moodle for mobile learning at Moodlemoot 2014 in Edinburgh. This session explores using audio, recordings, reflective logs and more. You can find more about Moodlemoot 2014 by using the event hashtag #mootuk14 on Twitter.
Epic's Tin Can expert Andrew Downes presented at the eLearning Network's event, 'LMSs and the Tin Can API', explaining the impact Tin Can has on learning design. This presentation covers how Tin Can influences the way we create e-learning and what we need to take into consideration when we use this new learning technology.
What can we learn from the future? - Imogen Casebourne and Lars Hyland @ Lear...Epic
Imogen Casebourne and Lars Hyland presented a seminar at Learning Technologies on 29th January 2014 at Olympia 2 in London. This presentation revisits some of the major trends in e-learning spotted by Epic over the years, including mobile learning and simulations. It also takes inspiration from what we think will be major future trends, including wearable technology such as Google Glass and smart watches.
A learning platform just for you - Mark Aberdour @ Learning TechnologiesEpic
Mark Aberdour presented a seminar, 'A learning platform just for you', at Learning Technologies 2014 on 30th January at London Olympia 2. This presentation covers open source platforms such as Moodle and several case studies to show how bespoke platforms can successfully meet the unique requirements of organisations.
LearningNow: performance support – Simon MartinEpic
Experian's Simon Martin presented at Epic's LearningNow event in partnership with Towards Maturity on 28th November 2013. Simon explained how Epic helped Experian create a solution for their cross-selling training, and how this worked so well as performance support.
Lars Hyland – What's stopping performance support?Epic
Lars Hyland presented at the eLearning Network's Christmas event on 5th December on the topic 'What's stopping performance support?'. Lars looked at the main barriers to performance support, along with potential future developments in learning technologies and how these may come in useful for performance support.
Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT), gave a presentation at Epic's LearningNow: performance support event in London on 28th November 2013. Jane's talk explored the importance of social and collaborative learning, including the rise of search engines and social media platforms such as Twitter when it comes to employees seeking performance support. This event, hosted in conjunction with Towards Maturity, looked at performance support as an e-learning and training aid, including how we can improve performance support, how people are finding it already and why it is so important to clients.
LearningNow: performance support – Imogen CasebourneEpic
Epic's Director of Learning Imogen Casebourne presented on the topic 'Using technology to aid performance support' at our LearningNow: performance support event in London on 28th November 2013. The event, which took place in conjunction with Towards Maturity, covered the important topic of performance support and how it can aid e-learning and training. Imogen's session focused on how we can incorporate performance support into the technology we use to assist employees in the workplace.
LearningNow: performance support – Laura OvertonEpic
Towards Maturity's Laura Overton facilitated Epic's LearningNow: performance support event in London on 28th November 2013. These are her slides from the day, including the introduction about the Towards Maturity Benchmark and the discussion topics. Find out more about how performance support can aid training and improve the e-learning experience.
Laura Overton of Towards Maturity facilitated at 'LearningNow: Induction strategies that work'. This presentation features the questions posed during the day and statistics and polls taken from the day.
Lars Hyland, Head of Consulting Services at Epic, gives his thoughts on how we can change induction programmes to effectively engage new starters. He presented this session at 'LearningNow: Induction strategies that work' on 25th September.
Ben Betts, Managing Director of HT2 Ltd, discussed the use of social in the induction process at our recent event 'LearningNow: Induction strategies that work'.
Carole Teacher from Mott MacDonald presented a session at 'LearningNow: Induction strategies that work' on 25th September. Her session was about the challenges and solutions of bringing new senior managers on board.
The use of Tin Can and Open Badges for learningEpic
Epic's Head of Platforms Mark Aberdour presents 'The use of Tin Can and Open Badges for learning' to a packed seminar at Learning Technologies Summer Forum.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
2. Agenda
Growth of open source
Tips for selecting open source software
Top 10 tools for learning and development
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10. Selection criteria
Does is use an Open Source Initiative approved license?
Is code currently being committed?
Has it released final/production version?
Are there regular stable releases?
How many developers are committing code?
Are there many plugins and extensions?
How busy are the support forums?
Is there good quality documentation ?
Is commercial support available?
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14. Delivery
Moodle
Learning management system
Big Blue Button
Virtual classroom
Wordpress
Wesbite content management
Mediawiki
Build your own Wikipedia
Mahara
ePortfolio
Development
Xerte Online Toolkits
Content authoring
Camstudio
Screen capture
Sigil + Calibre
eBook authoring and conversion
Audacity
Sound recording
Gimp
Image creation and manipulation
Top ten open source tools
15. XML Editor and Run-Time Engine
HTML5 content authoring
Accessible, responsive templates
Wizard based for content authors
Can be extended by developers
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/
www.xerte.org.uk/
www.ohloh.net/p/xerteproject
FACTS:
Increasing Y-O-Y
developmemt activity
Large, active
development team
(12)
Well established
codebase
Average number of
code comments
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17. Desktop screen capture
Direct ancestor of Captivate
Open sourced in 2001
Seems to be stalling as a project,
although 2.7 RC was released Feb
2013
www.camstudio.org
sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio
www.ohloh.net/p/camstudio
FACTS:
Well established
codebase
Average number of
code comments
One active developer
Decreasing Y-O-Y
development activity
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19. eBook authoring with EPUB 2
output
Book, code and preview modes
with audio, video, spellcheck
Calibre converts EPUB into right
format for e-readers,
smartphones, tablets, etc
code.google.com/p/sigil
calibre-ebook.com/
www.ohloh.net/p/sigil
www.ohloh.net/p/calibre
Sigil Facts:
Increasing Y-O-
Y development
activity
Well established
codebase
Average
number of code
comments
Average size
development
team (6)
Calibre Facts:
Stable Y-O-Y
development
activity
Mature, well
established
codebase
Few source
code
comments
Large, active
development
team (24)
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21. Sophisticated audio recorder and
editor
Import/export wide range of
formats
Pitch, frequency, quality settings
Wide range of effects
Digitize records from old media
audacity.sourceforge.net
www.ohloh.net/p/audacity
FACTS
Mature, well
established codebase
Average number of
code comments
Large, active
development team
(10)
Increasing Y-O-Y
development activity
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23. Versatile graphics manipulation
package
Photo retouching, image composition
and image authoring
Range of plugins and extensions
From simple paint tools to advanced
manipulation and scripting
www.gimp.org
www.ohloh.net/p/gimp
FACTS:
Mature, well
established codebase
Average number of
code comments
Very large, active
development team
(27)
Decreasing Y-O-Y
development activity
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25. Highly popular learning
management system
85,000 registered sites and 72 million
users
Hundreds of plugins and extensions
Vibrant community of developers
and enthusiasts
www.moodle.org
www.ohloh.net/p/gimp
FACTS
Mature, well
established codebase
Very large, active
development team
(148)
Average number of
code comments
Stable Y-O-Y
development activity
@epictalk @maberdour@epictalk @maberdour
27. Virtual classroom / web
conferencing
Slide sharing, video, whiteboard,
chat, integrated VOIP, desktop
sharing, document uploads, web
cam
Record and playback
www.bigbluebutton.org
www.ohloh.net/p/bigbluebutton
FACTS:
Mature, well
established codebase
Very large, active
development team
(28)
Average number of
code comments
Increasing Y-O-Y
development activity
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29. Website content management system
Started 2003
Widely used for education websites
and learning portals
Over 25,000 plugins
Nearly 30 million WP 3.5 downloads
and half a BILLION plugin downloads!
www.wordpress.org
www.ohloh.net/p/bigbluebutton
FACTS:
Mature, well
established codebase
Very large, active
development team
(15)
Average number of
code comments
Stable Y-O-Y
development activity
@epictalk @maberdour@epictalk @maberdour
31. Wiki system originally built for
Wikipedia
Content management system
Collaborative web page editing
Editorial version control
600 plugins and extensions
Extremely scalable
www.mediawiki.org
www.ohloh.net/p/mediawiki
FACTS:
Mature, well
established codebase
Very large, active
development team
(164)
Few source code
comments
Stable Y-O-Y
development activity
@epictalk @maberdour@epictalk @maberdour
33. ePortfolio system
Create journals, upload files, embed
resources
Submit portfolio for assessment
Social network and blogging tools
Resumé builder
www.mahara.org
www.ohloh.net/p/mahara
FACTS:
Mature, well
established codebase
Large, active
development team
(26)
Average number of
code comments
Decreasing Y-O-Y
development activity
@epictalk @maberdour@epictalk @maberdour