WELCOME

• OPEN SOURCE: What is it?

• Why is it important

• Relevance

NEED

• Self-Interest

• Overall health of a program community increases

• Meets the demand of the market

RESEARCH

• Saves money

• Flexible

• More Transparent

• Avoids a lot of project failures

DEVELOPMENT

• Harnesses power of distributed peer review & transparency of process

• Better quality for less to little investment other than time

• Higher reliability due to the vast amount of information available

• Lowers the cost to producer and consumer

COMMERCIALIZATION

• Community of developers

• Wiki, Yahoo Buzz, Wikipedia, Moodle

• RedHat/JBoss

• IBM

INNOVATORSADOPTERS

• Innovators & Adopters: Consumers along with producers. Reason? Cost and flexibility.

• Laggards: Those who are close minded, confused and have questions regarding support, risk of OS programs, requirements and maintenance.

• Combination of small group innovations as well as showing positive results.

CRITICAL MASSCHANGE AGENTS

• Centralized/Decentralized must work together to implement adoption.

• Leadership, team members and “change agents” within your organization.

• Yes & No. Moodle and Wikispaces have caught on yet other programs/software we shy away from because it is OS.

AGENDA

• There is a need but it’s by a “needs” basis. Open Source plays a role in our MS/HS but within our Elem. it’s guarded. We need it due to the flexibility, low cost and ease of maintenance. Depending on source, it’s dependable, is high quality and very resourceful

RESOURCES

• www.dev.apache.org/guidelines.html

• www.extropia.com/open_source_case_study.html

• www.jboye.com/blogpost/open-source-what-does-it-mean-in-2010

• www.mysql.com/why-mysql/scaleout/zappos.html

• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10429430-62.html

• www.opensource.org