OpenSource – Harold Jarche

I was recently interviewed for an article in Forbes magazine and asked what I thought about ‘The Cloud’. There was a typographical error in my response, so here it is corrected. I cannot see ...

https://jarche.com/2017/05/owning-your-data/

Openness enables knowledge-sharing, which fosters innovation through a diversity of ideas. Trust emerges in networks that are open and transparent. This is how open source software is developed. ...

https://jarche.com/2015/04/open-source-workers/

ENCLOSURE: In English social and economic history, enclosure or inclosure is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land formerly...

https://jarche.com/2013/05/the-new-enclosure-movement/

Once again, it’s time to put my money where my mouth is. I have been a proponent of the open web and open source software for the past decade and more. This site was Creative Commons licensed w...

https://jarche.com/2013/03/open-as-in-commons-not-garden/

Here are some of the things that were shared via Twitter this past week. @DaveGray – “trainers must know the thing they are training. Most knowledge today flows too fast to learn, then teach....

https://jarche.com/2011/07/simultaneity-and-openness/

Here are some of the things I found via Twitter this past week. QUOTES @stangarfield – “Influence knowledge sharing behavior by modeling it – lead by example, practice what you preach, show...

https://jarche.com/2011/07/sharing-put-me-on-the-map/

Here’s what I learned on Twitter this past week: @literacyadviser “The only truly effective web filter is an educated mind.” via @ jonhusband @dweinberger “The only way I know to solve bi...

https://jarche.com/2010/04/beta-data-and-more/

This weekend I noticed a tweet from Alec Couros about some issues with the Ning social networking platform. That post is over a year old but from the comments as late as last fall, there seem to ...

https://jarche.com/2010/03/elgg-its-a-community-effort/

I wrote about the importance of owning your data for blogging a while back and last week’s Twitter crash coupled with the demise of an URL shortener only reinforce that in my mind. The case of ...

https://jarche.com/2009/08/wheres-your-data/

In an attempt to make my finds on Twitter more explicit, this may be the start of regular posts on some of the things I learned this past week (weekly seems better than monthly). Numbers & Measur...

https://jarche.com/2009/05/fridays-finds-1/

Dave Cormier has written a great article on selecting a content management system (CMS). Dave discusses three platforms, all of which I have used – WordPress, Moodle, Drupal. All are open sourc...

https://jarche.com/2009/01/selecting-os-learning-technology-platforms/

Bill Fitzgerald has written a comprehensive technical guide for the Drupal open source content management system with a focus on its use in formal education. Drupal for Education and E-Learning, ...

https://jarche.com/2009/01/drupal-for-education-and-e-learning/

In my 2009 predictions for eLearn Magazine I said that “There will be an increased interest in open source software as well as tools and methods that enable online collaboration.” Ryan Camero...

https://jarche.com/2009/01/open-source-for-learning-costs-less/

In Innovating in the Great Disruption, Scott Anthony suggests three disciplines necessary to foster innovation in difficult economic times – placing a premium on progress; mastering paradox; an...

https://jarche.com/2008/12/innovation-and-learning/

I’ve been a fan of Elgg, the open source social networking platform, since I first saw it. Not only do I like the technology but also its underlying framework of user-centricty (which also mean...

https://jarche.com/2008/09/best-open-source-social-networking-platform/

Martin Weller mulls over the notion that the Open University or OU should call itself the Open U, with an emphasis on “open”: Open Source Open educational resources Open API Open content Open...

https://jarche.com/2008/09/open-up/

Dave Snowden relates an experience with Wikipedia where the inner circle decides that the actions of a user are not appropriate and he is subsequently banned. I don’t know all of the details he...

https://jarche.com/2008/09/open-source-a-better-model-for-all-of-us/

Another new tool found via Benoit Brosseau is Deki Wiki. This product from MindTouch is open source and seems to have all the right attributes to make it wildly popular: Similar to CMS web framew...

https://jarche.com/2008/07/deki-wiki/

My friend Benoit Brosseau told me about Mahara, which seems to fill a growing demand for e-portfolios in education. I like their approach: What makes Mahara different from other ePortfolio system...

https://jarche.com/2008/07/mahara-open-source-e-portfolio/

This week I attended the Social Media Meetup in Moncton and had the opportunity to spend some time with guest speaker Jevon Macdonald and several other folks, hosted by Steve in his new business ...

https://jarche.com/2008/06/monctons-open-source-community-is-growing/

I’ve long been an advocate of open source (the business model and the software), as well as openly accessible educational content and the right to freely share ideas. On the eve of the fifth an...

https://jarche.com/2008/06/attribution-only/

It seems that some folks have seen a business opportunity in developing an open source social network platform. From Insoshi’s website: Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to b...

https://jarche.com/2008/06/open-source-social-networking-platform/

I’m preparing a workshop for later this month and one of the topics will be the rise of open source and the business models around it. Here are some interesting sites and comments that I’ve c...

https://jarche.com/2008/05/open-source-business/

RWW features a story about DimDim, which is an open source web-conferencing platform. I’ve used it and it compares well with the various proprietary systems around. RWW talks about DimDim’s t...

https://jarche.com/2008/04/open-source-for-the-r-word/

The fool says that you can use Wikimedia Commons to find all kinds of pictures or other media that are in the public domain or have fewer copyright restrictions. I subscribe to the picture of the...

https://jarche.com/2008/04/pictures-for-any-occasion/

David Bahn at Metropolitan State University of Minnesota asked me last week if I had any information about implementation and maintenance costs of open source versus proprietary learning systems....

https://jarche.com/2008/03/costs-of-open-source-and-proprietary-lcmslms/

I noticed this piece on The App Gap which mentioned “knowledge artisans”, and it reminded me of a business plan I did about three years ago: Next-gen knowledge artisans are amplified versions...

https://jarche.com/2008/02/knowledge-artisans/

I was recently interviewed by Canadian Technology News and the resulting article, Six Strategies for Content Management, covers several points worth considering. Proprietary software and open sou...

https://jarche.com/2008/02/low-cost-content-management/

I had written a review of William Rice’s previous book and noted that it was rather technical. Moodle Teaching Techniques is more pedagogical and gets down to the details of how to develop onli...

https://jarche.com/2008/01/review-moodle-teaching-techniques/

Have you joined yet? From the Facebook group description: In December 2007, it became apparent that the Canadian government was about to introduce new copyright legislation that would have been a...

https://jarche.com/2008/01/fair-copyright-for-canada/

In 1937, economist Ronald Coase published an article, The Nature of the Firm, in the journal Economica. Within the article, Coase argues that firms exist because there are costs inherent to free ...

https://jarche.com/2008/01/the-e-lance-economy/

It looks like social media (wikis, blogs & social networking) are going the way of e-learning and knowledge management (KM). That means big companies charging big fees for cookie-cutter solutions...

https://jarche.com/2007/12/big-consulting-companies-jumping-on-bandwagon-20/

The impending closure of the Eduspaces service has many people wondering what to do and several options are cropping up in the online discussions. For those not in the know, Eduspaces is/was a fr...

https://jarche.com/2007/12/own-your-data/

I recently joined Xing, a business social networking site. In one of the forums I came across an open source social networking system (SNS). Dolphin is Creative Commons licensed, not the more typ...

https://jarche.com/2007/12/open-source-social-networking-application/

Following up from Copy Leftovers, here are some resources focused especially on the Canadian perspective. We should all be concerned and get informed before the Canadian DMCA is allowed to pass. ...

https://jarche.com/2007/12/taking-action-for-fair-copyright-in-canada/

Rather than including consumer concerns such as flexible fair dealing, time shifting, format shifting, parody, and the future of the private copying levy within the forthcoming bill, Prentice wi...

https://jarche.com/2007/12/copy-leftovers/

The mass media are spreading a variety of stories about the Internet’s inability to carry traffic in as little as two years. I’m not an investigative journalist but I wonder if this is a conc...

https://jarche.com/2007/11/more-fud/

I’ve supported Creative Commons (and use a CC license for this site) for several years and see it as a leader as we move to a digital economy. Larry Lessig’s presentations are usually quite i...

https://jarche.com/2007/11/three-stories-and-an-argument/

The Open Rights Group (UK) has created a wiki to collaboratively design a course on building businesses that are more open with their intellectual property: Right now, this week, we need your ide...

https://jarche.com/2007/10/creative-business-in-the-digital-era/

Last night was the monthly gathering of the Moncton area knowledge and IT industry, hosted by Mount Allison University’s research services. I really enjoyed Bruce Robertson’s presentation on ...

https://jarche.com/2007/09/local-industry-and-researchers-gather/

OpenBusiness is a website dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship based on open principles and is not just about open source software. These folks have developed an Open Business Guide, in the f...

https://jarche.com/2007/07/are-you-open-for-business/

Nick Booth passed this on to me a while back. It’s about a bid to government that was developed in a completely open and transparent manner. The entire story and process is available at the Ope...

https://jarche.com/2007/06/open-source-model-for-developing-bids/

Emerald Publishing has started an online community based on the open source Elgg platform. The news release compares the community with MySpace and Facebook: Amanda Briggs, Head of Research and D...

https://jarche.com/2007/05/elgg-powers-business-and-academic-community/

Via Stephen Downes and Dave Warlick is a previous report I filed away in January. It seems that the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) doesn’t see much value in ad...

https://jarche.com/2007/05/1165/

Patents and copyrights were conceived as individual rights, not corporate goods. And open source proves that inventions can be even grander than before if rights to the work are held in common.To...

https://jarche.com/2007/05/business-quote-of-the-week/

Last week, I said that I thought that there should be an open source alternative to Facebook (and there is at least one) . A few days later I came across this video overview of the money and poli...

https://jarche.com/2007/05/facebook-selling-your-information/

As we become more interconnected and use the Web for problem solving, finding love and sharing our sorrow, we should seriously consider public infrastructure as the backbone for social networking...

https://jarche.com/2007/05/do-we-need-a-public-alternative-to-facebook/

World Intellectual Property Day has become little more than a lobbyist day with creators, users, and the facts once again getting lost in the process. Read the rest of Michael Geist’s commentar...

https://jarche.com/2007/04/world-intellectual-property-day/

Has Linux crossed the chasm? I just had to post this cartoon ;-)

https://jarche.com/2007/04/linux-goes-mainstream/

The Learning Circuits Blog asks, what should Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and Off-the-Shelf Content Vendors do today in the face of more demanding customers, lower margins and more competition? ...

https://jarche.com/2007/04/lcb-big-question-for-april/