A brief introduction to FOSS for business

1. Free and Open Source Software for Business: An Introduction James Kariuki Njenga Department of Information Systems University of the Western Cape Introduction to general concepts, and business ideas of FOSS

2. James Kariuki Njenga University of the Western Cape [email_address] ; [email_address] http://www.elearningfundi.net http://www.uwc.ac.za Introduction to general concepts, and business ideas of FOSS

4. Lecturer in Information Systems

8. Explain the different freedoms as enshrined in the FOSS

9. Differentiate between FOSS and Proprietary software

10. Identify some FOSS business cases in your context

11. Identify some FOSS software that you could make business with

12. Module 1.1 General FLOSS Concepts

15. An industry

16. A philosophical argument

17. A social movement

18. A development methodology

20. A resource

21. A better alternative

22. An enemy

23. Just another jargon

24. An ideal

26. freedom 1:study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.

27. freedom 2: Redistribute copies to help others.

28. freedom 3: improve the program, and release your improvements to the public What are the preconditions to freedoms 1 & 3?

30. There are a number of FOSS licenses ....

32. BSD-style licenses

35. Access to source code

36. Freedom to modify

37. Freedom to redistribute

38. Freedom to study

40. No/Limited access source

41. You may not modify

42. You may not redistribute

43. You may not study it

44. You may not use for any other purpose other than the one it was made for. Can you make money in FOSS as you can in proprietary?

46. Requirements of a hacker

47. What is the FOSS hacker philosophy

48. Role of Management

49. Role of community

50. Access to computing resources and the Internet

53. Access to the internet

54. Minimal resources

55. Good management

56. ..... ..... ....

57. FOSS vs Proprietary – a bizview Access code, 'free' download, reuse Buy – don't build or code Freedom to modify Vendor locking Customize to one's needs Lack of customisable features Ease of localization Deployed for limited locale(regions & languages) Extrinsic & Intrinsic motivation Extrinsic motivation Generation of shared knowledge 4 common good Generate knowledge for competitive advantage Distributed support 'Singularity' in support Ease of compliance Difficult to comply What feature/attribute will be more appealing for your business?

62. Module 1.2 FlOSS Business Globally

64. Contracted software development e.g. by governments

65. Consulting

66. Data handling and management

67. Hosting

68. Training

69. Certification

70. Migration

71. And many more.... What other ways can you use FOSS to generate revenue?

73. Production

74. Post-production

75. Distribution

82. Help??

84. Migration/Substitution

85. New Deployment

86. Selling services

87. Selling products

89. Vertical

90. Hybrid? Eclectic? pragmatic?

91. Horizontal OpenOffice Freemind Firefox Thunderbird Development Installation Integration X X X X Maintenance & Support Training Certification Migration

92. Vertical Audacity VirtualDub eXe GIMP Development X Installation X Integration X Maintenance & Support X Training X Certification X Migration X

93. Eclectic MediaWiki Moodle Miro qBitorrent Development X X Installation X X X X Integration X Maintenance & Support X Training X X Certification X Migration X

95. Tabulate the service configuration matrix that you think would fit into the industry given the software you have selected

96. Present your table- with reasons for your selection(s).

97. Module 1.3 Evolution of FLOSS Communities and Software Markets

99. How does FLOSS communities change the costs of development, production, copying and distribution?

100. What is the value of the network effects?

101. What are the challenges of incompatibility in the network?

104. $$/LOC

105. LOC/Developer

106. Cost of distribution

107. Cost of copyng

108. Cost of training and modifications

109. ..................

114. Where are the gaps/opportunities in the software market?

117. Exercise Three: Describe how the project admin can benefit from the community from the diagram below

118. Module 1.4 FLOSS Licensing models

120. Freedom 1:study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.

121. freedom 2: Redistribute copies to help others.

122. freedom 3: improve the program, and release your improvements to the public

124. Licensor

125. Licensee

126. Copyright

127. Copyright holder

128. Copyleft

129. End User License Agreement (EULA)

131. Assert copyright (“ © James Njenga 2009”)

132. Decide on HOW to distribute it (As FLOSS)

133. Select a FLOSS license that suits you (and your work)

136. Not originally copyrighted

138. Require proper attribution of modified works

140. Permits redistribution and modification (Under the same licenses)

143. Always look for license that allows for the broadest distribution of your work!

145. Read on the different kinds of licenses.

147. GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses

149. Module 1.5 Leading FLOSS resources for keeping yourself updated on the current FLOSS eco-system

151. Finding and selecting applications

153. Contact me James Kariuki Njenga Department of Information Systems University of the Western Cape Tel: +27 21 959 3243 Fax: +27 21 959 3522 jkariuki@gmail.com; jkariuki@uwc.ac.za http://www.elearningfundi.net http://www.uwc.ac.za

154. The University of the Western Cape