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.TRANSCRIPT
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