Licenses, Features and the Open Source Community in Higher Education
03-August-2005
permalink email thisBy Jim Farmer, OSS Watch, July 4, 2005
Good presentation indicating the size of the e-learning market (about 30 billion USD (+/- 30%)) and the importance of open source in serving that market. The author emphasizes several times that open standards, rather than open source, will be key to accessing that market. Some good discussion near the end of the presentation describing open source business models. Via Stephen Downes and Scott Leslie, who also provides a link to the rest of the presentations from the Building Open Source Communities conference , held recently in Edinburgh.
Building Open Source Communities was a one-day conference held in Edinburgh that explored such topics as:
how do open source software projects organise themselves
why do some projects grow rapidly
how does the licence choice affect the kind of community that develops
what is the relationship between developers and end-users
how important is leadership
Other Presentations included:What is an open source software community? Sebastian Rahtz, Manager, OSS Watch
Licences, Features, and Community: The Path to Sustainability Jim Farmer, Community Liaison, Sakai Educational Partners Program
Co-located agile development Helen Sharp, The Open University
Serving Maths: Experiences from a JISC Distributed e-Learning Project Gustav Delius, University of York
Life and times in the Apache community Andrew Savory, Director, Luminas
MoodleMoot: Meeting Real People from a Virtual Community Sean Keogh, UK Moodle Partner
Building Open Source Communities was organised by OSS Watch, the open source software advisory service for UK HE and FE.
Building Open Source Communities was a one-day conference held in Edinburgh that explored such topics as:
Other Presentations included:
Building Open Source Communities was organised by OSS Watch, the open source software advisory service for UK HE and FE.
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