Open source software refers to computer programs where the source code is available to the public, allowing users to study, change and improve the software. It is often developed collaboratively. Open source software has advantages like better quality, reliability, flexibility and lower costs compared to proprietary software. The peer review process also helps improve code quality as any issues can be quickly identified and fixed by the community. Popular open source programs that power much of the internet include the Linux operating system, Apache web server, Firefox browser, and content management systems like Drupal and WordPress.

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2. Open-source software is computer software where the source code is available under a license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is often developed in a public, collaborative manner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software Open Source??

3. What Does This Mean To You? The source code is available Software does not cost If you have the ability to modify the code you may do so, but you must publish the source code.

4. Opensource.org Has This To Say About It. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. One of our most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community.

5. What Does This Mean To You? The peer review process means that anything you do will be evaluated by others and may be modified All the coders will review your work, if you break it, they will all work at fixing it Your data will be stored in an open format

6. How Safe And Reliable Is It? When problems are found with open source software, it is generally fixed in hours. Companies tend to have patches ready in days.

7. So How Good Is This Stuff? The internet runs on this software and always has The web server of choice, Apache runs 58.86 % of the web sites (last month) Firefox the most popular web browser is sitting at 15 % up 5 % in the last year.

8. Why Haven't I Heard More About This? North America is the slowest region to embrace open source An attitude prevails that if you don't have to pay to rent it, it isn't worth using. North America can afford to buy software -the world can't.

9. How Much Does Software Cost?

10. So Who Publishes This and Why ? The developers, at ground zero were dedicated programers who had a passion for the program Proof of concept - Linux Companies have also jumped on board. The largest and best known one would be IBM.

11. Who Supports This? The community FAQs Manuals Howtos Discussion groups 18 000 000 hits on “howto apache”

12. Lets Play….. All the titles I am showing run on three operating systems: Mac, Windows and Linux I will run the firestorm and then we will play….. I believe that time to play is the most important part of this workshop. Some of the web applications have demo servers.

13. Open Office Word Processing Spreadsheet Presentation Database Draw

14. Word Processing Full featured Reads .doc documents Saves .doc, xml and odf. Test documents newsletter - fine. background image - not.

15. Spread Sheet A sheet was brought in from Excel Formatting is sometimes lost The interface is so familiar

16. Impress Imports other slide designs with no problem. The bells and whistles don’t always work The sounds and movies file types are rather particular.

17. Draw This is vector based drawing package Objects can be resized and moved around. Opens .jpg, png, tiff and gif Only open office formats

18. Database I am a Filemaker user I played around enough with this to make an address book. Click friendly

19. Abi Word Writes and saves .doc files with simple formating no problem. Simple to use Standard icons Mean lean writing machine. (90 menu items, 4 toolbar, Word has 131 and 18 Toolbars)

20. AbiWord Does not do a good job of importing Word Tables, footers and graphic formatting.. No background image in this example The display is not as crisp as Word No clipart, just pictures from the web(?)

21. Inkscape Vector based illustration program Layer tools Gradients More tools than I have ablity

22. GIMP

23. Tux Paint Easy to use No menus What you see is what you get…almost Blue scale? Arrows?

24. Even I can figure this one out!

25. Tux Type

26. Character Mode

27. Word Mode

28. Free Mind

29. NVU WYSIWYG Web editor. no html code… but It is easy to use It gets ackward if you try to make large sites. It is best for the student sites ( ? pages)

30. Stellarium 120,000 stars images of nebulae realistic Milky Way equatorial and azimuthal grids the planets and their satellites eclipse simulation

31. Celestria The space simulation that lets you explore our universe Travel throughout the solar system

32. Sudoku This is the only single platform OS program I am showing. There are Mac versions on the net. http://www.sudokufun.com/widget.php

33. Moodle

34. Some Moodle Sites The conference eLearning site is run with Moodle Many schools are running it.

35. ATutor U of T is the lead

36. SciQ Site on ATutor Very easy to use This site was just point and click from our website Demo server available http://courses.atutor.ca/login.php

37. Apache Started with a web server 56 % of the current market Most Linux distributions include this

38. Mediawiki Written for Wikipedia.org http://en. wikipedia .org/ wiki / Mediawiki

39. Wikipedia.org

40. Linux The first true open source project, started as a class assginment Runs the internet

41. Drupal

42. Drupal Add on Modules Content Management Systems Blogs Collaborative environments Forums Newsletters Podcasting Picture galleries

43. WordPress Latest blogging technology Full standards compliance WordPress Pages WordPress Links WordPress Themes

44. Etcata.ca

45. Joomal Content management system Our webmasters current choice Online demo http://demo.joomla.org/

46. OpenCourseWare Provide free, searchable access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept.

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