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Embracing Open Source: Strategies for Adoption and Overcoming Resistance

This session led by Erin Tripp from discoverygarden inc. focuses on the adoption of open source software, particularly in the context of Islandora projects. Erin discusses the benefits of open source, including quality and user-driven communities, while also addressing common areas of resistance such as lack of training and management support. Attendees will gain insights from case studies, strategies to reduce risks in migration and adoption, and the importance of community engagement. The talk underscores the value of investing in open source resources to enhance software usability and sustainability.

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Embracing Open Source: Strategies for Adoption and Overcoming Resistance

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  1. iCamp GTA Switching to Open Source August 8, 2014 Erin Tripp, discoverygardeninc

  2. Agenda • Open Source Adoption and Resistance • Case Study • Reducing Risks • Onward!

  3. Introductions • Hi, I’m Erin … • Working with Islandorasince 2011 • Assigned to approx30 different Islandora projects ranging from consulting, installation, custom development, and data migrations. • Employed at discoverygarden, partner in the IslandoraFoundation

  4. Open Source Software Adoption OSS has: • Quality • Reliability • Fixing security bugs (Accenture, 2010). • User driven community (Accenture, 2009a). Alternatives have: • Lack of Flexibility / Autonomy • Scaling cost (anecdotal evidence from PM work)

  5. Open Source Software Resistance • Lack of training (Accenture, 2009, para. 8). • Lack of senior management support(Accenture, 2009, para. 8). • insufficient open source alternatives (Accenture, 2009, para. 8).

  6. Open Source Software Case Study • Road map • Review Data and Requirements • Metadata Mapping • Scripting Migration • Standard vs. Custom Use Cases

  7. Reduce risk by contributing to the maturation of the community

  8. Open Source Software – Onward! • Continued success depends on • Fostering learning and institutional expertise – Sustainability • Being visionaries • Offering and accepting support from community partners • Evangelizing • Resulting in • Increased adoption • Asserting values of open source software within our institutions • Improving the software so it’s meaningful to users, extensible, easy to use, maintain and upgrade

  9. It’s worth it to invest in people and ideas instead of licenses.

  10. Thank you! For more information or to schedule a private demonstration of any Islandora functionality please contact info@discoverygarden.ca

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