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

Longstanding collaboration with UvA

Host of 2011 EuroSakai conference in Amsterdam

Host of st Middle East conference in Abu Dhabi

Not selling a product

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

We are part of an ecosystem

Designed by Higher Education itself

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

“ 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 Community Source Projects 2004

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

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

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

Creates…

Sakai software is licensed under the terms of the Educational Community License, version 2.0

Collaboration Math: = 3? = 5?

Closer look at community source

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

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

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

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

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

Risks with open source  ‘Bending’ open source  Closing the source code

IP and Licensing matter a lot!

Coordinating open source versus Supporting open source

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

Software coordinating entities

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

It worked!

LMS market in transition

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

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

Why is Sakai community source successful

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

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