Category: open source
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Why did I become a fan of Open Source
It was 8 or 9 years ago as the CTO of a small rural institution that I began implementing open source solutions for the enterprise. I had always been frustrated that many innovative technologies were out of the financial reach of my institution but the demands for services were continually increasing.I do call this the…
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The Knowledge Free Call Center’s Impact on Open Source in Higher Ed
In 2007 I began doing a talk called Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid: Why Free is Better Even if you Have a Budget . The original talk focused on my experience from moving from the open source LMS Moodle from WebCT but has had several forks over the years. I think this presentation is…
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Knowledge Free Support Centers vs. Commercially Supported Open Source
I have heard more than once in the past year how IT is realizing how important people are to the success of projects. We are hearing this from peers, consultants and vendors. What a great trend. However, I am also in the business of writing POs for licensing and services to many of these same…
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Why Did I Create Open Source Checklists
These three topic areas were developed originally because when we started moving our LMS from a commercial product to OSS in 2004-2005 (Moodle was our/my first enterprise OSS venture) there was a lot of skepticism (to say the least). Yep, I used to get hammered for suggesting such moves. In fact it was probably uglier…