iCamp GTA Switching to Open SourceAugust 8, 2014Erin Tripp, discoverygarden inc

Agenda

•Open Source Adoption and Resistance

•Case Study

•Reducing Risks

•Onward!

Introductions

•Hi, I’m Erin …

• Working with Islandora since 2011

• Assigned to approx 30 different Islandora projects ranging from consulting, installation, custom development, and data migrations.

•Employed at discoverygarden, partner in the Islandora Foundation

Open Source Software Adoption

OSS has: •Quality

•Reliability•Fixing security bugs

(Accenture, 2010).

•User driven community (Accenture, 2009a).

Alternatives have: •Lack of Flexibility / Autonomy

•Scaling cost (anecdotal evidence from PM work)

Open Source Software Resistance

•Lack of training (Accenture, 2009, para. 8).

•Lack of senior management support (Accenture, 2009, para. 8).

•insufficient open source alternatives (Accenture, 2009, para. 8).

Open Source Software Case Study

• Road map •Review Data and Requirements

•Metadata Mapping •Scripting Migration•Standard vs. Custom Use Cases

Reduce risk by contributing to the maturation of the

community

Open Source Software – Onward!

•Continued success depends on •Fostering learning and institutional expertise – Sustainability •Being visionaries •Offering and accepting support from community partners •Evangelizing

•Resulting in •Increased adoption•Asserting values of open source software within our institutions•Improving the software so it’s meaningful to users, extensible, easy to use, maintain and upgrade

It’s worth it to invest in people and

ideas instead of licenses.

For more information or to schedule a private demonstration of any Islandora functionality please contact info@discoverygarden.ca

Thank you!