Open Source Software For Education

1. with Elliot Jordan 1. Background and History of Open Source 2. Progress and Trends 3. Examples 4. Resources-Projects/Applications Open Source Software For Education

2. This Isn't Powerpoint Oh by the way...

3. Information that may be viewed, modified, copied and redistributed freely so that it is available to new innovations and contributions from a worldwide community of developers. It's a well-spring of imagination, creativity and productivity. So what is “Open Source”?

4. Our recipe Recipe for approx. 85 ltr. Vores Øl (Our Beer) (approx. 6% alchohol by volume). For Vores Øl we use four types malted barley: * 6 kg pilsner malt * 4 kg münsner malt * 1 kg caramel malt * 1 kg lager malt The malt is crushed and put in 55-60°C hot water for 1-2 hours. The mixture is filtered and the liquid now contains about 10 kg malt extract. Let's have a (open source) beer

5. DMV Who uses it? Utility Companies Banks Stock Exchanges MUNICH PARIS Chicago Small Businesses Universities

6. Strengths and Advantages • Worldwide community driven • It has become very user friendly • Cost-effective (free)‏ • It may be adapted to your needs • Source code may be viewed and changed • Runs well on old hardware • Resource efficient, secure and stable • Adheres to common industry standards

7. Strengths and Advantages • Vast hardware support • Especially good on old retired hardware • Getting more stable and secure • Includes state of the art technology • Updated often • 1000's of apps for all purposes • Embraces open standards-no vendor lock-in.

8. Open Source rising... Approximately 60% of all web servers run Apache

9. Anecdotes In The News • The FAA/DOT is considering Linux over Vista/IE • Dell to sell PC's / Laptops with Linux pre-installed • HP considers Linux • Microsoft makes deal with Novell re Open Source • Novartis will give away information it has on genetic code associated with Diabetes. “It's better if a lot of companies can analyze this data rather than keep it secret”.

10. Open Source Forefathers Linus Torvalds Richard Stallman Eric Raymond

11. A Fresh Desktop Look

12. A Linux for this and that(some of the best)‏ • Ubuntu – popular Debian based • Suse – full featured, just acquired by Novell • PCLinuxOS – fork of Mandrake • MEPIS – well designed, it just works • Slackware – an old standard, “pure” Linux • Gentoo – custom compiles all apps • Knoppix – good utility loaded for fixing stuff • Red Hat/Fedora – enterprise level Linux • Rpath – has innovative package manager • Damn Small, Puppy – only 50-200mb

13. Dedicated To - • Video • Audio • TIVO recording • Telephony PBX Switch • Security Firewall • Home Automation • Enterprise Server

14. WINDOWSandLINUXandMAC • Dual, Triple Boot • Live CD • Virtual Machines • Xen • VMWare • Parallels Workstation • Bootcamp • OpenVZ

15. So how do they make money? • Accepting contributions • Selling related merchandise • Selling Support (biggest source)‏ • Get bought out by another company

16. sourceforge.net schoolforge.net newsforge.net distrowatch.com freshmeat.net Important Sites

17. The GUI and the Command Line Everyone wants computers to be easy-nice menus, buttons and toolbars to click on. The trend is to “gui-fy” everything. Most administrative tasks in Linux (or BSD) may be done with via a GUI. Some tasks are still done more efficiently via the command line. Still other more complex or involved tasks may also require it.

18. Why you shouldn't use Linux • You (must) use Quicken • You (must) use other proprietary applications • You don't like to read documentation • You like running antivirus/spyware scans • You enjoy blue screens every so often • You buy into the “for techs only” stigma • You'll miss defragging too much.

19. “It's easy to use”, my cousin says..

20. Education Resources • schoolforge.com • schooltool.org • scholarpack.org • k12ltsp.org • ltsp.org • http://www.filegate.net/linux4kids/ • claroline.net • openschoolsalliance.org • opensourceconsortium.org • schoolbell.com • osef.org

21. Applications Proprietary Open Source Windows Linux, Solaris, BSD IIS Apache Internet Explorer Firefox Outlook Thunderbird Office OpenOffice Photoshop GIMP, Gimpshop Illustrator Inkscape, Cinepaint Quark, Publisher Scribus Maya, 3DS MAX Blender3D, k-3d Final Cut, Premiere Cinelerra, Kino, Lives TIVO MythTV The Phone Company Asterisk PBX Mavis Beacon TuxType MS SQL Server, Oracle MySQL, Postgresql Cisco Routers Vyatta, XORP

22. More....(google them if nec.)‏ Proprietary Open Source Dreamweaver NVU, Athana, Amaya Flash Gnash Soundforge Audacity, Jokosher MP3 Ogg Vorbis WM player, Real, QT VLC, Mplayer, Xine, XMMS WebCT, Blackboard Moodle, Alfresco, Joomla, Drupal,Plone, Zope Notes, Exchange Zimbra .NET Java,LAMP, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby HP OpenView, Tivoli OpenNMS, Groundwork Quicken Gnucash, gnumeric Desktop Search Beagle Anconia Wordpress, XAMPP iPhoto, ACDSee f-spot, digikam Checkpoint Smoothwall, Monowall, IPCop MS Project openworkbench, mrproject Voice/Video Conferencing ekiga, Xconnect (mac)‏

23. Even more... • Celtx, scribes text editors, script writing • Krecipes, largorecipes Little Wizard

24. For Networking / Security • Nessus • Snort • Kismet, Kismac • Nmap • Tcpdump • Ethereal

25. CREATIVITY! 2D animation - ktoon

26. Design web pages with Amaya, NVU

27. Making Music • Rosegarden • Jack • Audacity • Timidity • Plork • frinika.com • zinf.org • solfege.org

28. Ardour

29. Kreetingkard linuxgames.com ogre3D ktuberling Novelties

30. VARIETY!! • Over 11,000 open source projects • An application for just about any purpose

31. ENJOY!!