open source in further education
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Engaging with open source software in the FE sector
[email protected]://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
Regional Support Centre SWSummer Conference19th June 2008
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Agenda
Who are OSS Watch?
What is Free and Open Source Software
Why should you care?
Engaging with Free and Open Source Software
Open Source and IT Policies
Further help and information
Who are OSS Watch?
JISC funded advisory service for open source software
Watchwords
Trust
Impartiality
Practical advice
Openness and collaboration,
Pragmatism and balance,
Expertise
What we do
Advice on all things open
Procurement
Engagement
Development
Legal
Services
Clearing house: [email protected]
Content: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
Consultancy, events, presentations, community development
Who are OSS Watch?
Ross Gardler (me)
Open source developer
Member of The Apache Software Foundation
Joined OSS Watch in Jan 2007
Service Manager in July 2007
My focus is on open source for sustainability
5 other staff and 4 contractors
Legal expert
Statistician
Content Manager
Anthropologist
Content authors
Agenda
Who are OSS Watch?
What is Free and Open Source Software
Why should you care?
Engaging with Free and Open Source Software
Open Source and IT Policies
Further help and information
What is Open Source?
a copyright licensing paradigm
a marketing term for free software
a software development methodology
all about community
a business model
Open source use in UK FE
Software deployed on servers
All/Almost all closed source dropping from 56% (past) to 40% (present) to 26% (Future)
Moving to mostly closed (present) and in some cases on to half and half in the future (12%)
Software deployed on desktops
All/Almost all closed source dropping from 67% (past) to 47% (present) to 37% (Future)
Moving to mostly closed (present) and in some cases on to half and half in the future (10%)
Some OSS Myth Busting
MYTH: Volunteers sustain open source
FACT: sustainable open source enables income streams to support multiple volunteers
MYTH: You can't generate income from open source
FACT: $1.8 billion in 2006 rising to $5.8 billion in 2011 (IDC, June 2007)
MYTH: You have to engage with the project if you use open source
FACT: You can outsource all support and development services if you want to
MYTH: Its free
FACT: It's Free as in Speech not beer
FACT: It can save you money
In a survey of 800 IT managers, InfoWorld found that of all the FLOSS adopters, only a very small percentage (