OPEN SOURCE:
High Risk or High Yield?
What is open source?
The Cathedral and the
Bazaar
The Culture of Open
Source
Research on open source
development
Microsoft’s opinion?
The word is out
Your business officer is
being encouraged…
Types of open source
software
One campus’ open source
email system
Characteristics of open
source
The Assertions
The Assertions
The Assertions
The Assertions
The Assertions
The Assertions
That was the theoretical
part…
Selection, Selection,
Selection
Licensing
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High Risk
High Risk
High Risk
High Risk
Lower Risk
Lower Risk
High Yield
Higher Education OS
projects
Community Source
Potentially High Yield
Sakai Project
Mellon Foundation
Projects
and open source
and open source
So…high risk or high
yield?
Practical
recommendations
Consortial piloting in
Ohio
“Production Piloting”
“Production Piloting”
Resources - Articles
Resources – Web sites