Open Source

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source

The Marketecture of Community

November 1, 2012

Brad Wheeler is Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for Indiana University and a professor of information systems in IU's Kelley School of Business. Ja…

Alternative IT Sourcing Strategies: Six Views

July 21, 2011

Ed Mahon Michael R. McPherson Joseph Vaughan Theresa Rowe Michael P. Pickett John A. Bielec EDUCAUSE Review recently asked six CIOs to talk about alternativ…

Community-Sourced Kuali OLE Serves Libraries

June 24, 2011

Key Takeaways The Kuali Foundation offers a lightweight administrative framework for developing new models for open source application development . Using this open, ligh…

From War to Trust: IT in the New Normal

September 22, 2010

Key Takeaways Despite an economic slump, an academic structure in flux, proliferation of technology, and heightened competition for grants, a new model for provisioning IT in the new normal…

Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability: Preliminary report from an NSF-funded workshop held 27 & 28 March 2009

March 4, 2010

The National Science Foundation’s strategy for 21st century innovation depends on rapid creation ofsoftware to enable scientific discovery. The NSF workshop report “Planning for Cyberinfrastr…

Just Asking. . .

December 22, 2009

I was talking with a favorite colleague recently about cloud computing, or, as he calls it, "cloud confusing." At some point our geeky conversation drifted to pondering the topic relati…

Sustainable Communities for Software: Variations on a Theme

September 4, 2009

© 2009 Robert H. McDonald. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License ( http://creativecommons.org/lic…

IT Collaboration: A Preview of Findings from the 2007 ECAR Study

June 19, 2007

This ECAR research bulletin addresses a unique strength of higher education: its commitment to sharing ideas and promoting open access to knowledge. These values shape IT in higher education as w…

Open Source 2010: Reflections on 2007

January 1, 2007

© 2007 Brad Wheeler EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 1 (January/February 2007): 48–67. Brad Wheeler is Chief Information Officer for Indiana University and Dean of IT for IU-Bloomington…

Considering Open Source: A Framework for Evaluating Software in the New Economy

January 2, 2007

Open source software and the community source movement are raising questions for administrators about whether and when to adopt or devote resources to software development projects, provoking que…