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Values of Community Source Development - Lois Brooks, Syllabus

To help us understand open source in the context of higher education, Lois Brooks lays a groundwork based on the work of some of the best thinkers in the software development world. There are a lot of projects underway in higher education institutions right now that are pushing software into open source. Open source isn’t new, of course, and in the 30 years that it has been a viable model for software development, some common practices and values have emerged. The structure and beliefs of the open source community are increasingly present in higher education. In recent years a trend toward community-based projects has emerged, where institutions pool their talent and resources to develop products for use by the education community. The definition of open source is access to the raw, original code of an application. The intellectual underpinning is that the code itself is at liberty—the source itself is available to anyone who wishes it. Others can modify, extend, poke around to learn, or whatever they wish. The notion is not that open source is free of cost, though often there are no licensing fees.


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