This presentation was delivered as part of the plenary session at the Canadian Moodlemoot 2011 in Edmonton called "Talking About All Things Open".

1. Talking About All Things Open Open Source Software Gavin Henrick, Remote-Learner Presented at Moodlemoot Canada 2011, Edmonton

3. Free Redistribution Source Code Derived Works Integrity of The Author's Source Code No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor Distribution of License License Must Not Be Specific to a Product License Must Not Restrict Other Software License Must Be Technology-Neutral

5. Allows for better software to evolve by having more people involved in it's creation The software and the community exist in an ecosystem Open source software ensures "derived works"

7. The ease of peer review helps allow for better and safer products Making sure that new members of the community can engage, learn and contribute in a supportive, positive way A willingness to share and collaborate on what works and what doesn’t

9. Choosing the best product for you Enables choices for services like support Collaborating with or improving existing works

11. Finding a way to contribute to a project you are interested in. Any open source project a sustainable business model is needed to 'keep the wheels turning'. The OSS movement can be misunderstood by most people.

12. OLCOS Roadmap 2012 ties open concepts together for identifying Open Educational Resources the availability of source code for the tools which are used for the OER Open APIs Open Access Open usage (liberally licensed for re-use in educational activities)

13. Open source platforms used for Open Educational Resources (Dspace, Fedora) NDLR http://dspace.ndlr.ie Jorum http://open.jorum.ac.uk/ Open Access Research (Dspace, Eprints, Fedora, PKP Trinity College Dublin http://www.tara.tcd.ie/ RIAN http://www.rian.ie/ Digital Repositories Islandora http://islandora.ca/ (Drupal, Fedora) Open Courses Moodle http://hub.moodle.org/

14. Learning Solutions Consultant www.Remote-Learner.net Moodle Partner USA – Canada - UK