Software Freedom Week Celebrations' 09

Dwarakanath JSun Campus Ambassador

Dwarakanath.J@sun.com

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What is Open Source?

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Open Source

Free Redistribution.Source Code.Derived WorkIntegrity of the Author’s Source Code

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Components of Open sourceIBMHPSUNRedHatApache Software FoundationMozilla FoundationLinus Torvalds

Corporate

Non-Profit Organizations

Individuals

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Open Source And Students

3 D's Are Important

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Open Source and students

• Development• Documentation• Distributions

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Development

• Software Products(VLC,Firefox)• Applications(Joomla,Drupal)

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What makes your

software

awesome?

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Learnability

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Efficiency

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RetentionRetention

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Few user errors

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SatisfactionSatisfaction

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It's all about the user

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Whoever they might be

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When users love the softwarethen that's great then that's great

software!software!

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Technical Technical DocumentationDocumentation

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Why Document?Why Document?

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no one reads

manuals!

But ...

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Beautiful documentation won't make crappy software any better

But it might prevent some users from trying to stab you

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Small POP Quiz?

Which is the world's best Technical Innovation?

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POP Quiz

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Distribution

• Source• Binaries• Licensing

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Open Source Licensing

• CDDL(Common Development & distribution)

• GPL(GNU Public license)• Mozilla public license

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Wanna Get Started?

• Gear up your Skills and Diversify them• Communicate a lot!• Try Innovating things

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Easier Way to do this is to......

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Participate

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Spot the difference

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Spot the difference

• Freeware Vs Shareware• GPL Vs CDDL• Software Vs Service

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Statistics

By 2011,80% of the software used by small and large companies will have code that is open sourced -Dave Johnson,President

Apache Foundation

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Thanks/Suggestions

• Dwarakanath J• http://blogs.sun.com/dwarak• Dwarakanath.J@sun.com• +91 9884799523