{"id":211,"date":"2006-09-21T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=211"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:20:44","slug":"k12-summit-speech-notes-and-blog-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2006\/09\/k12-summit-speech-notes-and-blog-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"K12 Summit – Speech Notes and Blog Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gave an off the cuff speech at the recent K12 summit (http:\/\/k12open.fi.ncsu.edu\/). I could not use PowerPoint (gasp). So I wrote some notes.
\nPictures start here<\/a>.
\nMy speech notes start here<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nWhat is Sakai and the SF
\n– Open source Collaboration and Learning Environment
\n– 2.5 years old
\n– 200 sites approaching a million users
\n– Active in Standards like IMS
\n– Member supported non-profit $1M \/ year – 105 members
\n– Volunteer developers
\n– Apache like commercial friendly license
\n– RedHat like commercial affiliates
\nIssues in Successful open source governance
\n– Value and protect those who make commitment and those who do the work for the common good
\n– Arrange motivation arrows so they lead toward contribution
\n– Need diversity of community- developers, designers, users, teachers, etc. Geographic diversity – Higher Ed, Community College, K12, lifelong education
\nMultiple models of approaching Open Source
\n– HE direct – HE indirect through vendor
\n– CC indirect
\n– K12 likely will be indirect because of nature of the market
\nHow to Contribute
\n– Developer, QA, design requirements, sharing experience, participating in communities of practice.
\n– HS can contribute – may be QA, bugs, requirements
\nSakai to teach Software Engineering
\n– VA Tech already in doing this at grad level – moving toward undergrad
\n– Sakai is like a worldwide 100 person mid-cap tech company that operates in the open – like watching an ant farm
\nKeys for K12
\n– Need to create and promote success stories – must over invest up front and not give up.
\n– Must improve packaging of Open Source software
\n– Standards and interoperability a must
\nMisc points
\nRedhat did not invent O\/S – they showed how to profit from O\/S by adding value without ruining the O\/S community.
\nTom Rabon: Collaboration is the heart and soul of open source.
\nPassion + Curiosity trumps IQ
\n“I would rather be collaborating” – T-shirt
\nThe “Y-axis of the stack” is “value” – it is different for different verticals. For developers it is power and convienence, for games, it is frames per second, for higher education IT – it is innovation, for K12 education is “out of the box integratability.
\nNotes on Bob Suter.
\nIt is hard to define “open” – it is easier to define things that are “imperfections” in “open”.
\nIt usually comes down to when you will be told “no”. Do you or your organization have to pay *anything* to play?
\nCan you see all the conversation?
\nHow do decisions get made?
\nFinal panel – K12 Low Hanging Fruit
\nMy notes start here<\/a>. This is the low hanging fruit note<\/a>.
\nOpen Source SIF Agent for Sakai
\nFind existing K12 Sakai deployments – find use cases which were solved and make sure to get them back into the main Sakai release.
\nA really simple cut down distribution of Sakai that installs for small production in 20 minutes on commodity hardware commonly available in K12.
\nWork with K12 publishers to see if Common Cartridge can be used to get content into the hands of teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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