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Open Source & Commercial Support

Open Source & Commercial Support. Drs. Jaeques Koeman Founding partner, Edia. Founded in 2004 Located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Software development and service provider for education. Supporting community source software. Adopted Sakai in 2004 Sakai Commercial Affiliate.

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Open Source & Commercial Support

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  1. Open Source & Commercial Support Drs. Jaeques Koeman Founding partner, Edia

  2. Founded in 2004 • Located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands • Software development and service provider for education

  3. Supporting community source software

  4. Adopted Sakai in 2004 • Sakai Commercial Affiliate

  5. Longstanding collaboration with UvA

  6. Host of 2011 EuroSakai conference in Amsterdam

  7. Host of 2012 1st Middle East conference in Abu Dhabi

  8. Not selling a product

  9. We help implementing a strategy for the future of IT services in Higher Education

  10. We are part of an ecosystem

  11. Designed by Higher Education itself

  12. Choosing Open Source and Partnering as an IT Strategy Brad Wheeler Associate Vice President & Dean Office of the VP & CIO Indiana University bwheeler@iu.edu 2004

  13. Community Source Projects “Community source describes a model for the purposeful coordinating of work in a community. It is based on many of the principles of open source development efforts, but community source efforts rely more explicitly on defined roles, responsibilities, and funded commitments by community members than some open source development models.” …. from www.sakaiproject.org 2004

  14. Higher Ed agenda towards openness • Independency instead of monopolization • Control your destiny • Innovate!

  15. Meta-university collaborations Charles Vest, president emeritus of MIT • Empowerment • Communal construction of open materials and platforms • Open Educational Resources, Open acces, • Administrative systems, collaboration and learning environments

  16. Combined with… • Possiblity for collaboration at scale • Internet reducing coordination & distribution costs tremendously

  17. Creates…

  18. Sakai software is licensedunder the terms of the Educational Community License, version 2.0

  19. http://sakaiproject.org

  20. Collaboration Math:1 + 1 = 3?2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 5?

  21. Closer look at community source

  22. Open source: Free as in Libre • "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer."  —Richard Stallman

  23. Community source • Committing resources • Baseline development based on a shared roadmap • Governance by committing institutions • IP held by independent foundation • Public license

  24. open source community • Led by Martin Dougiamas • Company holds IP • Hierarchical governance • Limited influence on road map • Large community of contributors

  25. open source product • Company offering open source version of product • Company holds IP • Non-public governance • Unknown roadmap • Open source version as marketing, or at least not competitive with commercial version • Small community of contributors

  26. community source • Coordinated by Sakai Foundation • Holds IP • Non-profit • Committed resources from members • Coordinating role in development and distribution of technology and knowledge • Transparant governance/ road map

  27. Risks with open source • ‘Bending’ open source • Closing the source code

  28. IP and Licensing matter a lot!

  29. Coordinating open sourceversusSupporting open source

  30. Commercial Coordination Closed IP LicensingFees Creating Software Unbundled IP & Support + Commercial Support Options Sustaining Software Maintenance Fees Higher Ed Coordination Open IP Community/Open Source Projects Bundled IP & Support Partnering Organizations

  31. Software coordinating entities

  32. Software supporting entities • Higher Education institutions • Commercial support organizations • Moodlerooms (Moodle) • Netlog (Moodle) • rSmart (Sakai) • Unicon (Sakai, Jasig) • Edia (Sakai, Jasig, DuraSpace)

  33. It worked!

  34. LMS market in transition

  35. LMS market transition • Closed source products decreasing market share • New ‘cloud-based’ solutions (Edmondo, Instructure) gain share • Open source products (Sakai, Moodle) gain share

  36. Blackboard acquires open source providers (Moodlerooms, Netlog) Education technology headline of the week: A big YES for open source business models ;)

  37. Why is Sakai community source successful

  38. No license costs: a huge selling argument • Unbundling IP and support • Flexibility of the software • Committed resources • A healthy ecosystem of commercial support organisations

  39. Commercial supporters • Drive and possibility to spend resources on the project • Are driving adoption of the product • Develop new functionality to the product • Help localization/internationalization • Sharing best practices

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