This document explores free and open-source software. It discusses that free software is a movement about liberty rather than price that has existed for over 20 years. It considers some common misconceptions about proprietary software and examines important factors to consider when evaluating software options like licensing, support, and community. The document provides examples of organizations using various open-source content management systems like Drupal, Plone, and Liferay.

1. Exploring Free Software
By Phillip Smith,
Community Bandwidth
http://communitybandwidth.ca

2. What is free and open-source
software?

3. Free software is over 20 years old

4. Free software is a global
movement

5. Free software is about Liberty, not
price

6. What do we often believe about
not-free software?

7. Someone to hold accountable

8. It’s less expensive to maintain

9. That there is faster or better
support

10. So, what’s really important here?

11. Licensing

12. Support options

13. The roadmap, the community

14. Benefits and risks of F/OSS

15. Raw material and a sandbox

16. Extensible, flexible, exponential

17. Key risks: vendors, momentum,
and lock-in

18. Evaluating options for your project

19. Standards, standards, standards!

20. Release early, release often

21. Installed, hosted, or managed?

22. Portal technologies

23. Community plumbing

24. Document & Content management

25. Personalization (… or all three!)

26. What options are available
today?

27. Drupal, Plone, etc.

28. Bricolage

29. Exo, Magnolia, Liferay, etc.

30. A few examples in action

31. Omidyar Network (Zope/Plone)

32. Netsquared (Drupal)

33. IDRC’s Global Telecentre initiative
(Drupal)

34. World Health Organizations
(Bricolage)

35. Goodwill Industries International
(Liferay)

36. Open-source discussion board
solutions

37. Dgroups (Drupal)

38. phpBB, YABB, Simple Machines,
etc.

39. Groupserver

41. Exploring Free Software
By Phillip Smith,
Community Bandwidth
http://communitybandwidth.ca