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Innovating in the Commons A Method to the Madness Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco, California, USA

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Innovating in the Commons: A method to the Madness

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Innovating in the Commons

A Method to the Madness

Sameer Verma, Ph.D.

Information SystemsSan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, California, USA

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me

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Job description

Teaching. Research. Service.

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Teaching

ISYS 573 - Managing Open Source

HistoryCollaboration

Creative CommonsLicensing

Business ModelsAssessment

Adoption and Use

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Research

The role of serial entrepreneurs in the internationalization of global start-ups.

A business case

Journal of Strategic Management Education Vol 6: Issue 1, 2010

Alberto Onetti, Marco Talaia, Vincenza Odorici, Manuela Presutti, Sameer Verma

http://www.senatehall.com/strategic-management?article=368

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Service

Drupal Community of Practice

http://drupal.sfsu.edu

Just say “No!” to committees

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Three significant projects

San Francisco State University Learning Management Services

Moodle (http://moodle.org) Content Management Services

Drupal (http://drupal.org) E-Portfolio Services

Mahara (http://mahara.org)

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Establish a need

Needs of the campus Students, Staff, Faculty

Total Cost of Ownership 5 year time frame

Buy vs Build Interoperability

In-house expertise Create employment!

Cross-campus development

California State University system

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What drives platform choice?

Flavor of the day Code Documentation Training Integration Support Support Support …

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Open Source Maturity Model

Created by NavicaSoft Released under the Open Academic License Multi-criteria assessment Weighted scoring approach

http://web.archive.org/web/20080731125905/http://www.navicasoft.com/Thanks to our friends at the Internet Archive!

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Open Source Maturity Model

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OSMM Criteria

Product Software Support Documentation Training Integration Professional Services

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Using FOSS

Use vs Participation Active involvement within the California State

University system Active involvement with the projects Participation is tough

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Using FOSS

Use vs Participation Active involvement within the California State

University system Active involvement with the projects Participation is tough

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Extending beyond campus

http://olpcsf.org

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olpc San Francisco

http://olpcsf.org/summit

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Pilots at:Providence Basic School

August Town Primary School

http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

One Laptop per Child Jamaica

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In a nutshell

Don't ask for permission first.If need be, ask for forgiveness later.