OSS EDU: standing on the shoulders of giants

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Business that do not utilize open source software - and adopt at least some of its principles - are missing out on major competitive advantage. I presented this slide deck at eLiberatica 2009 in Bucharest to illustrate how OSS saved time and money, added features, and produced a better, more bug-free, more stable solution for 3 learning management systems that I've built and launched over the past decade.

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OSS|EDUstanding on the shoulders of giants

two seconds on me …

three things about schools …

OSS is an enabler …

no money – no problem

all decisions political – no worries

inertia is unbelievable – who cares

three projects …

one, un, una

500K registered users …

two, deux, doi

1000 schools

three, trois, treis

about 60K schools in North America

DiscoverZone PremierGo PremierCampusLanguage Perl PHP PHPFramework Mason Joomla MoodleDB MySQL MySQL MySQLPlatform Linux Linux Linux

progression …

DiscoverZone PremierGo PremierCampusTime +++++ +++ ++Bugs ++++ ++ +Features ++ +++ +++++Maintainability + +++ +++++

thanks!

john koetsier sparkplug9.com twitter.com/johnkoetsier