Making the Case for Open Source in Higher Educadtion

The slides from the Educause 2012 session: "Making the Case for Open Source". Focusing on the justification and advantages for using Open Source in a Higher Education environment.

Transcript

1. Making the Case for Open Source Ken Ingle Educause 2012 Wednesday, November 14, 12
2. Who am I? Wednesday, November 14, 12
3. Who is CPCC? Wednesday, November 14, 12
4. Who are we? Students 70,000+ students community college wide demographic 6 campuses largest campus = virtual Campuses Location Charlotte, North Carolina www.cpcc.edu Wednesday, November 14, 12
5. The Real Story Budgets Expectations Staff continue to fall as the economy struggles continue to rise as more students start school resources are limited with additional work needed and required Wednesday, November 14, 12
6. What is Open Source? Wednesday, November 14, 12
7. NOT THIS! Wednesday, November 14, 12
8. This.... In production and development, open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. -- Wikipedia Wednesday, November 14, 12
9. This.... In production and development, open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. -- Wikipedia not... Wednesday, November 14, 12
10. Who Uses Open Source? Wednesday, November 14, 12
11. Who Uses Open Source? Google Facebook IBM Microsoft Wednesday, November 14, 12
12. Who Uses & Contributes Open Source? Cisco VMWare Oracle and more... Wednesday, November 14, 12
13. Probably You! Wednesday, November 14, 12
14. But Where? Data Center Network Desktop Applications Services / Cloud Wednesday, November 14, 12
15. Why Use Open Source / Mythbusting Wednesday, November 14, 12
16. Innovation Wednesday, November 14, 12
17. Enhancements Wednesday, November 14, 12
18. Scalability Wednesday, November 14, 12
19. Cost/Investment Wednesday, November 14, 12
20. Vendor Lockin Wednesday, November 14, 12
21. Data Ownership Wednesday, November 14, 12
22. Maintenance Wednesday, November 14, 12
23. Support Wednesday, November 14, 12
24. Community Wednesday, November 14, 12
25. Open Source In Higher Ed... Hadoop / MySQL .... Linux CAS / Shib .... uPortal and more... Wednesday, November 14, 12
26. It’s All About Community Wednesday, November 14, 12
27. Closed Source is not all bad. Wednesday, November 14, 12
28. Considerations What are the platform costs for the solution? What API and Integration capabilities exist? What are the commercial support options available? Who are the key players in the community and how long have they been around? Does the solution support a potential move or cloud option? Do you have the internal resources to support an open source solution? and more.... Wednesday, November 14, 12
29. Questions? Wednesday, November 14, 12
30. Contact me / Thank You! Twitter Website Email @ken_ingle http://www.keningle.com kingle <at> g mail <dot> com Ken Ingle Wednesday, November 14, 12