Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software – another alternative

Adapted from:Ed Newman’s TCEA 2005 Presentation

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““Would you buy a car with the hood Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?”welded shut?”

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““What do you know about modern What do you know about modern internal-combustion engines?”internal-combustion engines?”

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What is Open Source?What is Open Source?

Open source software (OSS) refers to software programs that are distributed with the source code—hence open source. The open source license allows users the freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and modify the program, and to freely redistribute copies of the original or modified program.

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Open Sourceanother way of building software

The software evolves more rapidly and organically.

Users’ needs are rapidly met. New versions are released very

often, tested by a community of users, resulting in superior quality software tested on more platforms.

Security is enhanced because the code is exposed to the world.

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Is OSS really Free?Is OSS really Free?

Open source is often thought of as free software. In fact, one of the benefits is that anyone can use, modify, and redistribute the software without a license fee.

While the code is free, the benefits have much more to do with the freedoms than the cost.

Cost occur in the TCO.

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Great misconceptionGreat misconception

OSS is an alternative to commercial software

OSS is an alternative to proprietary software

The greatest difference

CONTROLCONTROL

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FACT:FACT:

Microsystems, Apple Computer, Red Hat, Novell, and many other companies attribute significant revenue from strategies built on commercialization of open source software.

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Imagine…Imagine…

the Freedom to choose; control over your destiny; connection to a global community; Peace of Mind and confidence; Innovation in teaching and learning

technology.

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DISTRO’sDISTRO’s

Ubuntu http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

Edubuntu http://www.edubuntu.org/

Mandriva www.mandriva.com

Fedora http://fedora.redhat.com/

KNOPPIX http://www.knoppix.com/

http://distrowatch.com/

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KnoppixKnoppix

Bootable CD Try Linux on your Windows PC Great Troubleshooting Tool

Reads NTFS Use for recovery Other Utilities

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Some Server Please!Some Server Please!

LAMP Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP

WAMP Windows, Apache, MYSQL, PHP

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MoodleMoodle

Course Management System (CMS) designed using sound pedagogical

principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities

Use it on any computer you have handy including webhosts

It can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student University

Ohio State, Texas Tech, Mississippi State

http://moodle.org/

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Joomla – Joomla – (Content Management System)(Content Management System)

Portal or content system for hosting websites.

Plug-in for blogs, wikis, forms, calendars, email…

http://www.joomla.org

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Personal blog software hosted or downloaded to host on your server.

Supports multiple languages: Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, GermanFrench, Italian, and more. . .

http://wordpress.com

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MozillaMozilla

Firefox (Web Browser) has an intuitive interface blocks viruses,

spyware, and popup ads. Tabbed Browsing

Thunderbird (Email Clint) Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, full-

featured email application. Junk Mail Filters Anti-Phishing Protection Advanced Security

http://www.mozilla.org/

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OpenOffice.orgOpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

http://www.openoffice.org http://www.learnopenoffice.org/

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GIMPGIMP

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program

Freely distributed piece of software Used for such tasks as photo

retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

http://www.gimp.org/

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Nvu Nvu (N-view)(N-view)

WYSIWYG Web page editor. Integrated file management via FTP. Reliable HTML code creation that will work

with all of today's most popular browsers. Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and

HTML using tabs. Tabbed editing to make working on multiple

pages a snap. Powerful support for forms, tables, and

templates.

http://www.nvu.com

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NvuNvu

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WINK WINK (Tutorial & Presentation)(Tutorial & Presentation)

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation product aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software.

Capture screenshots, add buttons, explanation boxes, titles, etc.

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

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AudacityAudacity

A free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder. Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital

recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg, MP3, and WAV sound files. Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds.

Change speed or pitch of a recording.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net

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AudacityAudacity

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IHMC Cmap IHMC Cmap (concept mappings)(concept mappings)

construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps.

http://cmap.ihmc.us

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PDF CreatorPDF Creator

PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.

Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

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ConclusionConclusion

Open source opens learning… Learn more at http://www.innovateonline.info

Questions? Email Jerome Ciesiolka at ciesiolkaj@marshallisd.com

For more resources, visit http://www.edlink12.net/OpenSource