Presentation to G:UP (Growing up in the West Midlands) about open source software and how third sector organisations can benefit from it.

1. Introduction to Open Source and How it Can Benefit Your Organisation

5. What is Open Source? Simply put Open Source software is a development method.... ...meaning that the software is freely distributable, available to customise and with no cost of software licenses .

6. Past - History

8. 1969 Internet

9. 1970's Unix distributed with Source Code

10. 1983 RMS starts GNU Project

11. 1991 Linus Torvalds creates Linux Kernel

12. 1998 Open Source Initiative (OSI)

13. 1999 Tim Burners-Lee invents WWW

14. 2008 MySQL sold for $1 Billion

16. Operating System

17. Started 1983

18. Incomplete until 1991

19. 1989 General Public Licence

20. 25 th B'day with Stephen Fry

22. Corel Linux

23. Debian

24. SUSE

25. Slackware

27. Distrowatch Top 100 Downloads

28. Static top 5

29. Vertical versions

30. Pre-installed

32. [email_address]

33. [email_address]

39. Linux Kernel

40. Open Handset Alliance (34 Companies)

41. Open Standards for Mobile Phones

43. Source Code inc

44. Derived Works

45. Integrity of The Author's Source Code

47. Distribution of License

48. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product

49. License Must Not Restrict Other Software

50. License Must Be Technology-Neutral

52. New and Simplified BSD licenses

53. GNU General Public License (GPL)

54. Affero General Public License (GPL)

55. “ Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)

56. MIT license

57. Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)

58. Common Development and Distribution License

59. Common Public License 1.0

60. Eclipse Public License

61. Software Proprietary (Closed Source) Open Source Office Suite Operating Systems CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Accounting ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)

62. Software Design Internet Multimedia Productivity Utilities

63. Software Design Internet Multimedia Productivity Utilities

66. Software Design Internet Multimedia Productivity Utilities

67. Software Design Internet Multimedia Productivity Utilities

68. Software Design Internet Multimedia Productivity Utilities

69. Software Design Internet Multimedia Productivity Utilities

70. Web Publishing/Collaboration/Projects CMS/Blog Collaboration/Wiki VLE Document Mgt/Portal Project Mgt

71. Web Publishing/Collaboration/Projects CMS/Blog Collaboration/Wiki VLE Document Mgt/Portal Project Mgt

76. Web Publishing/Collaboration/Projects CMS/Blog Collaboration/Wiki VLE Document Mgt/Portal Project Mgt

80. Web Publishing/Collaboration/Projects CMS/Blog Collaboration/Wiki VLE Document Mgt/Portal Project Mgt

81. Web Publishing/Collaboration/Projects CMS/Blog Collaboration/Wiki VLE Document Mgt/Portal Project Mgt

82. Web Publishing/Collaboration/Projects CMS/Blog Collaboration/Wiki VLE Document Mgt/Portal Project Mgt

83. Open Source Social Media

84. Education

85. Commercial Open Source

87. Advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups

88. Integrates with Joomla and Drupal CMS

90. Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation +

91. Reads and writes .xls, .doc etc

92. Reads ooxml – .docx, .xlsx

93. Cross Platform – Apple Mac/Linux/Windows

94. OpenDocument Format

96. Ensures information freely available

97. Future Proof our information

98. ODF an ISO/IEC international standard

99. Supported by European Parliament

104. Open Government

105. Semantic web

108. Open Video

109. Open Music

110. Open Games

111. Creative Commons

113. Big Buck Bunny

114. Music

115. Games

116. http://flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/2104652119/

117. Books/Writing

118. Hardware

119. Why

121. Better Solution

122. Avoid Vendor Lock-in

123. Share contributions

124. Community – has many benefits

125. 'Scratch your own itch'

126. Fix your own bug

128. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

130. Use Open Source (Firefox, OpenOffice etc)

131. Include Open Source planning/choices

134. Distributable

135. Configurable

136. Community

137. FREE

139. Google Code

140. Codeplex 6,000+

141. Total est 200,000

143. http://code.google.com/opensource/

144. http://www.sun.com/software/opensource

145. http://developer.apple.com/opensource

146. http://developers.facebook.com/opensource

147. http://opensource.adobe.com

148. http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/

150. Redhat/Novell Linux interoperability

151. www.codeplex.com OS Project Community

152. Port 25 MS open source community

153. Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)

154. Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)

155. www.microsoft.com/opensource/heroes

157. LAMP, WAMP and MAMP

158. Operating Systems - OpenSolaris, BSD, Haiku

159. CMS, Blogging, Micro Blogging

160. Enterprise Software

161. Creative Software – Design/Video/Sound

162. Security Software

164. http://code.google.com/opensource/

165. http://www.sun.com/software/opensource

166. http://developer.apple.com/opensource

167. http://developers.facebook.com/opensource

168. http://opensource.adobe.com

169. http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/

171. Continued Novell Linux interoperability

172. www.codeplex.com OS Project Community

173. Port 25 open source community at Microsoft.

174. Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)

175. Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)

176. http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/heroes/

179. twitter.com/philoakley

180. Identi.ca/philoakley

181. http://www.linkedin.com/in/philoakley

183. http://opensourceschools.org.uk/

185. The Cathedral & the Bazaar – Eric S Raymond

188. "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches,” Steve Ballmer – Microsoft Corp

189. "What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money..” Bill Gates 1987

190. "..we will create a level playing field for open source software in IT procurement and open up the procurement system to small and innovative companies…” David Cameron – Conservative Party Leader

191. "The internet age is transforming politics and has the capacity to transform government. Let’s start being open source right now.” George Osbourne – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

192. "Four things ought to be avoided. The first is a lock-in, an indefinite commitment to a single proprietary solution..” John Pugh – Liberal Democrat MP

193. "Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better” Richard Stallman

194. "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. ” Linus Torvalds 1990

195. "If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not? ” Bill Gates

196. " given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow ". More formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone." Eric S. Raymond from "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".

197. "Open source is neither an industry fad, nor a magic bullet. Rather, the development methods commonly encompassed by the term open source have provided customers and developers with additional options among many in the technology ecosystem." Microsoft.com Website 2008

199. twitter.com/philoakley

200. Identi.ca/philoakley

201. http://www.linkedin.com/in/philoakley