Building an Ecosystem of FLOSS to Educate Students with Disabilities

Building an Ecosystem of FLOSS to Educate Students with Disabilities OSCON 2012

Technology is Transforming Education

How Did I Get Here?

MIT Loans Paid, 2 Startups and 24 Years Later…

Come do social good with me!

When can I start?

SCALE INNOVATION

What Does Benetech Do?

create software for Maximum Social Benefit

solve large, critical problems in Areas of Need

human rights

literacy

environment

Technology Assists Students with Learning and Physical Print Disabilities

Jessica, Ste!on and Shane are three of 200,000+ members who can access Bookshare’s library of 150,000+ books, textbooks and periodicals with reading tools tailored to their special needs

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sUMmzi3nmig

Open Source in Benetech’s Literacy Program

Build Upon Create & Contribute

Poet

Why: Economics

Why: Economics

Why: Innovation Needs Collaboration

Benetech Organizational Truths ●  We prefer open to proprietary ●  We think we can do more together http://www.benetech.org/about/org_truths.shtml

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DAISY'

IDPF'

LRMI'

Academia'

Crea8ve'Commons'

Why: Harvest Passion of the Community

Why: Expanding our Impact

Bookshare / Chafee Qualified

Other Disabilities (e.g. ADHD, Austism) and English Language Learners

Ecosystem of Open Source Solutions

Authoring •  Inkscape'

Adaptation •  Poet'•  Universal'Sub8tles'

•  Tobi'

Discovery •  Learning'Registry'

•  LRMI'

Delivery •  Readium'•  Go'Read'(FBReader)'

•  Oleria'•  Amis'• MathJax'

Need developers to build in or expand accessibility Examples: Moodle, Sygil, BookType (FLOSS Manuals), EdX

Demo of the End to End Solution

Your Chance to Get Involved

●  Contribute to a Project –  http://SocialCoding4Good.org/volunteer –  http://benetech.github.com

●  Take into account accessibility in your projects

Q&A

Gerardo Capiel gerardo@benetech.org

@gcapiel benetech.github.com