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1 Open Source Trends & Issues Nicole C. Engard Vice President of Education ByWater Solutions

2 Issue #1 Lack of Proper Education

3 What isn t Open Source? Common Open Source FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) Comic: Author: Unknown Year: Unknown Source: Unknown!

4 What is Open Source? Open source software is software that users have the ability to run, distribute, study and modify for any purpose. Open source is a collaborative software-development method that harnesses the power of peer review and transparency of process to develop code that is freely accessible.1 Open source draws on an ecosystem of thousands of developers and customers all over the world to drive innovation.2 1,2

5 Open Source Community Open source is about more than free software Community is crucial to the growth of open source Without shared knowledge and collaboration the project will not grow People who use open source can collaborate and contribute in many ways with the community Write code Write documentation Debug Educate others

6 Issue #2 Technical Skill Fears! Stems from Issue #1!

7 Open Source is Easy! The hard drive on one of our reference desk PCs died today. I threw in a new one, but I didn't feel like spending the day sitting through Windows updates, so I loaded Ubuntu on it instead. The install, as I'm sure you know, only took about 15 minutes. Now, before I add my next point, keep in mind that I manage a staff whose average age is about 63. No joke. Most of them have been working at my facility longer than I've been alive. Still, once I had Ubuntu up and running, they were literally fighting over who got to use the new operating system. They loved it that much. Now I agree, Linux kicks butt. I use it about 80% of the time. Typing to you on Mint right now! However, I never expected novice users to take to it so quickly. Please, next time you do an open source webinar, impress on your attendees that libraries aren't sacrificing a thing by switching over to open source software. If anything, open source operating systems and applications can be far more user friendly for the novice user than Windows will ever be Mark at the The Rahway Public Library

8 Issue #3 Security Fears! Stems from Issue #1!

9 Risk of Proprietary Software In its 2011 Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report, which was released on Thursday, Coverity actually found that open source code has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software code does. Noyes, Katherine. Actually, Open Source Code Is Better: Report. PCWorld Business Center, February 23, actually_open_source_code_is_better_report.html.

10 Trends

11 Who s Using Open Source? Government Agencies All Kinds of Businesses Schools (K-colleges) Librarians

12 Open Source in Business In 2010 a survey of 300 large organizations in both the private and public sector found: 50% are fully committed to open source in their business 28% say they are experimenting with open source and keeping an open mind to using it 38% expecting to migrate mission-critical software to open source in next 12 months The cost was no longer viewed as the key benefit, instead: 76% cited quality as a key benefit of open source 70% cited improved reliability 69% said better security/bug fixing article_display.cfm?article_id=5045

13 Open Source in Business

14 Open Source in Government French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has issued a missive to French ministers, including a complete action plan urging government usage of LibreOffice and PostgreSQL. But the action plan calls for more. As noted on Slashdot: He also wants them to reinvest between 5 percent and 10 percent of the money they save through not paying for proprietary software licenses, spending it instead on contributing to the development of the free software.!

15 Open Source in Government On 7 August, a law was passed by the Italian Parliament that requires the use of open source software by public administrations where possible. Article 68 of the Italian Digital Administration Code (Codice dell amministrazione digitale) states that, from 12 August, public administrations looking for a new software solution must either use an application which they have already developed in-house, develop their own new program, use open source software, or any combination of these.!

16 Open Source in Libraries Koha ILS Evergreen ILS WordPress Drupal Dspace Kete Drupac SOPAC More:

17 Why so Popular? Reliability through Peer Review Freedom to Innovate No Vendor Lock-in User-centric Development Collaborative Environment Zero License Fees

18 Resources

19 Additional Links Open Source Living osliving.com Nicole s Delicious bookmarks: delicious.com/nengard/opensource FOSS4Lib foss4lib.org Open Source as Alternative Nicole s Zotero Library Open Source Software and Libraries Bibliography zotero.org/groups/ freelibre_and_open_source_software_and_libraries_bibliography

20 Print Reading List Practical Open Source Software in Libraries by Nicole C. Engard The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond Embracing Insanity: Open Source Software Development by Russell Pavlicek The success of open source by Steve Weber The open source alternative: Understanding risks and leveraging opportunities by Heather J. Meeker Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution by Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, and Danese Cooper

21 Thank You! Nicole C. Engard Vice President of Education ByWater Solutions Slides: > Publications & Presentations

Providing Services to our Remote Users: Open Source Solutions. Nicole C. Engard Director of Open Source Education ByWater Solutions nengard@gmail.

Providing Services to our Remote Users: Open Source Solutions Nicole C. Engard Director of Open Source Education ByWater Solutions nengard@gmail.com Outline What is Open Source? Products for your Library