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<h2>stitching tools</h2>

stitching tools

del.icio.us RSS Aggregation Google?

<h2>Ways of working...

Ways of working... ...open source style

concept / idea
distributed teams of developers work towards specific aims and objectives
regular software releases, some nightly
rigorous user based testing
bugs / feature requests methodology
ongoing calls for participation at all levels

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Community toolkit?

<h2>The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</h2>

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

proprietary vs. inhouse vs. open source

Proprietary tools...? e.g. FirstClass, Microsoft, Blackboard, WebCT

locked down,
decisions made centrally

inhouse, custom developed tools e.g. Oracle Collaboration Suite,

needs large development teams to fulfill all the criteria for developing feature rich tools

Open source e.g. moodle, plone, sakai

doesn't mean 'free' solutions, there is a cost in terms of support and refinement, deployment etc

<h2>Some <strike> future</strike> now tools?</h2>

Some future now tools?

Content Management framework / blog tools

Organisational ideas / concepts

Collaborative writing tools

SubEthaEdit
Wiki tools, PHPWiki

Mobile technologies

UltraSMS e.g. pirate bbc essex, blog site

What's next for software development? more tools? more joined up tools? What about identity?

<h1>Open Source Tools</h1>

Open Source Tools

Core Education Breakfast Seminar

What is Open Source software? Cathedral and the Bazaar "lesson one: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." "lesson two: Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)" Drivers for open source? People have a desire to be empowered by technology not driven by it.

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Jonathan Furness
jonathan@ultralab.netJonathan has worked on Online community tools for the past 3 years, prototyping and shaping new technologies to explore different approaches to learning.