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NON-SOFTWARE OPEN SOURCE OPPORTUNITIES

NON-SOFTWARE OPEN SOURCE OPPORTUNITIES. Group F Members: Albin Louit * Chitra Madhwacharyula Koji Murao Mark Pearson * Mike Wooldridge * presenter. LICENSES. OPEN SOURCE. Direct access to the source/content. Given away for free. Modification and extension encouraged.

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NON-SOFTWARE OPEN SOURCE OPPORTUNITIES

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  1. NON-SOFTWARE OPEN SOURCE OPPORTUNITIES Group F Members: Albin Louit* Chitra Madhwacharyula Koji Murao Mark Pearson* Mike Wooldridge * presenter

  2. LICENSES OPEN SOURCE • Direct access to the source/content. • Given away for free. • Modification and extension encouraged. • Decentralized development. • GNU Free Documentation License (viral) • Creative Commons Licenses • Attribution, Non-commercial, No-derivates, …

  3. OUTLINE • Examples • Encyclopedias • Journals • Business strategies • Advertising • Repurposing content • Complementary Services • Donations / government funding • Author pays • Merchandising • Future trends

  4. OPEN SOURCE ENCYCLOPEDIAS License: GNU Costs: mostly computers and bandwidth Income: mostly donations currently

  5. OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS License: Attribution required; otherwise varies Costs: editors, computers, printing, peer review Income: advertising, complementary services, grants, author fees

  6. OTHER OPEN SOURCE OPPORTUNITIES • Online educational material • Environmental databases • Legal documents

  7. BUSINESS STRATEGIES6 sources of funding for businesses using open source content Complementary services Open-Access Journals The author pays Legal Documents Advertising Educational Materials Donations & Government Environmental Knowledge-Base Repurposing free content Open Source Encyclopedia Merchandising

  8. COMPLEMENTARY SERVICES • Open source content provider:Ex: Biomed, open-access journal • Career search services (Adsumo) • Online document storage (Open Repository) • 3rd party service provider Ex: AnalyGIS, repurpose census data • Demographic Analyser software

  9. ADVERTISINGCommon method to raise funds for free content providers • Common Web Examples: • News sites (CNN) • Search Engine • Google AdSense • Open source examples: • Open-Access Journals • Recent development: Wikipedia and Answers.compartnership • Highly targeted advertising makes this method very efficient

  10. THE AUTHOR PAYS • Open-access journals: Ex: Public Library of Science: • $1,500 per accepted article • Cover the costs of peer review, technical editing, electronic distribution

  11. DONATIONSSource of funding for companies working for the public interest • Private and corporate donations: • $1 million to MIT OpenCourseWare • $100 thousand during 1st quarter 2005 to Wikimedia • Government funding:

  12. REPURPOSING FREE CONTENTPresent and future Wikimedia’s projects to raise funds Present projects Future projects Wikireaders: 6 books for sale in Germany (5-85€) • Wikibooks: • Selling soft copies of books available on Wikibooks • Wikipedia Version 1.0: • CD or DVD offline version of a selection of the most comprehensive articles

  13. MERCHANDIZING • 20% are added to the base price of the items. All proceeds go to the Wikimedia foundation • Need to have a positive and trendy image

  14. FUTURE TRENDS • Network effects will help open content compete against closed content. • Repurposing content will lose • Businesses can incorporate open content to add value to their own contents. • Targeted advertising will help effectively monetize content. • Content will become commoditized • Complementary services will be important.

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