A short presentation giving a overview of what open source is and why it is good! by Peter Bui from PB Web Development

1. The Power of Open
Source
by Peter Bui - PB Web Development

2. What is it?
• Production or development model that
promotes access to the end products

3. Examples

4. Anyone Uses Open
Source?
• What and why?

5. Benefits of Using Open
Source
• Low cost of ownership
• Allows you to take control
• Avoid vendor locks
• Flexibility and Freedom
• Great security & Quality
• Continuity

6. Example at
PB Web Dev
• Clients don’t like to be locked in with a
product or provider
• Clients don’t have huge budgets as start
ups
• Providing open source product is a perfect
solution

7. Support for Users
• Strong social aspect
• Communities
• Online forums
• User groups
• Paid service providers and consultant

8. Benefits of Releasing as
Open Source
• Can gain large user base and popularity
• Unimagined possibilities
• Community development and
• Continuity of product & development
• Building on an existing popularity an
existing product

9. Downsides
• Politics, Politics, Politics involved with group
organisations, direction and development
• Splits and rifts in the communities
• Monetizing the open source model

10. Joomla Founding
Members
Started Joomla after splitting from Mambo

11. Where Now?
• Looking at developing something?
Check out an open source platform to
release on, Joomla, Drupal, CakePHP,
• Looking for a product as a solution?
Check out SourceForge.org - 296,166