popular open source software

Popular Open Source Software

Jason Murray

I will: Define Open Source Software (OSS), Explain licenses, Explore OSS popularity, Discuss areas for support, and List several popular educational OSS

Goals:

Software with available source code Customizable

Free as in speech, free as in beer The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric

Raymond Community programmed, reviewed,

& tested Development movement

What is Open Source Software?

Richard Stallman – Free Software Foundation GNU project

The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond

Netscape Examples

Linux Apache Microsoft??

CodePlex XP

Popularity

Open Source Initiative Licenses

Apache License 2.0 Mozilla Public License 2.0 MIT License GNU General Public License (GPL) GNU Lesser General Public License

(LGPL)

Licenses

Red Hat Full support

IT challenge Business needs Industry (education) Cloud computing Migration

Support

Black Duck

Support

OpenLogic

Support

Google Blogs Forums OSS website LinkedIn

Open Source Group

Support

Evaluate software Needs analysis

What are your objectives? Does this package meet your curriculum

needs? Environment

Will it run on all of your devices? Unexpected Results

Caution - Disclaimer

Edubuntu openSUSE – EduLife Puppy Linux for Education Debian-Edu UberStudent

Operating Systems

Moodle .LRN (dot learn) created by MIT Dokeos (new mobile platform) ATutor (LMS & CMS)

Learning Management Systems

WordPress Joomla Drupal Typo3 e107

Content Management Systems

Alfresco – hosting available too Nuxeo

Content Management Platform

InaSAFE Indonesia Scenario Assessment For

Emergencies Black Duck 2012 Rookie of the Year

Assessment for Emergencies

Charlie Reisinger Tech Blog

LibreOffice

Previous PETE & C OSS Session

Tux4Kids TuxPaint, TuxType, TuxMath

GCompris

Educational OSS

Blender GimpShop CamStudio GreenShot

Educational OSS

Celestria iTalc iTest KDEdu

Educational OSS

osalt – Open Source as Alternative Alternativeto – OSS and others

Discovering OSS Alternatives

SourceForge GitHub Google Code Bit Bucket CodePlex Code 52 Open Hatch

Repositories

Portable Apps Over 300 apps

Educational OSS – Top Pick

Don’t forget about: Hardware

Raspberry Pi Ouya

Content, Flexbooks Curriki

Courses MOOCs

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