Free & Open Source Software, an Educational Presentation
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The presentation by Sean Thomas Moroney discusses the benefits of free and open source software (FOSS), emphasizing its utility, collaboration, and community aspects. It provides a historical overview of FOSS, highlighting its evolution from the 1950s to the 2000s, as well as statistics indicating significant savings and usage in education and consumer sectors. The document also outlines strategies and trends for integrating FOSS in various applications, particularly in schools and cloud computing.
Free & Open Source Software, an Educational Presentation
- 1. Free & Open Source ware An Educational Presentation By Sean Thomas Moroney, M.Ed Copyright 2011 Attribution-ShareAlike
- 2. Free & Open Source ware WHY FOSS? Utility – it works! Promote spirit of collaboration, innovation Support communities in favor of corporations Enhance security Cost $ benefit Be Greener
- 3. Free ware Can be downloaded, used, without restrictions Solely or collectivity developed Intellectual property rights may be retained Source code not necessarily distributed E.g., skype, VLC, Audacity, Cloud/Web 2.0 apps
- 4. Open Source ware Modifiable, extendible Collectively developed, created Released in the public domain May have commercial elements
- 5. The 3 C's of Open source Code ~ - Some popular world-class open source projects are Linux, E.g, U/Linux family of operating systems, Apache, PHP, MySQL, CMS, many Web 2.0, mobile platform API apps. Collaboration ~ Collaborative tools are the backbone of the open source way. Tools include version control systems, IRC, mailing lists, wikis, blogs to help developers working on building code together. Community ~ Sharing ideas and developing code across the Internet with developers all over the globe forms the community for most open source projects.
- 6. A brief history of FOSS 1950'-60's Hardware rules: software freely shared, UNIX written, SHARE group meets 1970's Software becomes relevant; USA v IBM restricts bundling; first networked computers, programs shared widely on BBS's; Commercial software “industry” develops
- 7. A brief history of FOSS 1980's Copyright law extended to include software. 1 st PC's introduced Micro-computing movement begins, Free Software Foundation started GNU or General Public license established; “Copyleft” v Copyright. 1990's PC concept as work appliance embraced, commercial software worth billions, linux released, Netsacpe released as freeware, internet evolves and FOSS with it
- 8. A brief history of FOSS 2000's Computers become home/work/school appliances, mobile computing comes of age, Cloud computing helps WWW grow numbers 1.0, 2.0 etc 2008 US Federal court rules that FOSS software agreements arre legally enforceable
- 9. Some F O SS Numbers An estimated 6,845,609,960 internet (browser) users (2009) Apache Project software runs 98% of the WWW 100,000+ FOSS Mobile apps created, downloaded used in 2009 An estimated $6 billion consumer dollars is saved via the use of FOS each year.
- 10. F O SS Case Studies 200+ user school lab stocked with FOSS. Initial savings in purchase and licensing fees $27,000.00 Subsequent year $50,000,00 + Survey in education sector revealed 30-44% budget savings via use of FOSS. (MassCUE, ISTE, Free Software Foundation 2010)
- 11. F O SS Strategies... An estimated 6,845,609,960 internet (browser) users (2009) 100,000+ FOSS Mobile apps created, downloaded used in 2009 An estimated $60 billion consumer dollars is saved via the use of FOS each year.
- 12. F O SS Trends, projections strategy for schools Proprietary Software costs at stasis with additions WWW and community growing Cloud Software as a service applications growing Network API and device convergence TCO?
- 13. F O SS Trends, projections, strategy cont. Conduct user community habit audits: survey, monitoring Develop parallel function FOSS bank Transtion to Cloud replication where and whenever possible Invest in BANDWITH, BANDWITH, BANDWITH!