The coming open source revolution (in your local libraries)

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The coming open source revolution(In your local libraries)

Buzzy NielsenLibrary Director

February 21, 2012This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution

United States license. http://www.creativecommons.org

Source: Richard Stallman, "The Free Software Definition" (GNU Project)

A philosophical match

Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the

concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'

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A philosophical match

We want the information in our libraries to be freely available.

Why shouldn't our software be as well?

Linux Mint 12 - A 21st century OS

Linux Mint 12 - A 21st century OS

Linux Mint 12 - A 21st century OS

But you can still go old school

Comic source: http://xkcd.com/149/

Why we're switching

Reason #1 – Philosophy

Reason #2 – Cost

Reason #3 – Efficiency

Reason #4 – Adaptability

Reason #5 – Features

Reason # 6 – Security

A new public computing experience

The basics

Firefox(web browser)

Nautilus(file manager)

Public Fox BlockSite

Writer(word processor)

Calc(spreadsheets)

Impress(presentations)

Draw(design program)

The fun stuff

VLC(media player)

Brasero(burning utility)

Banshee(music player)

GIMP(image editor)

Calibre(ebook manager)

Firefox kiosks

Self checkout station

Catalogstation

Evergreen integrated library system

Customer relationship database

+ sophisticated inventory management

Open source adaptability

Open source CMS - Plinkit

Open source CMS - Plinkit

And on the backend - Wine

Pidgin and XMPP

Coming soon

GIMPImage editor

ShutterScreenshot utility

LibreOfficeImpress

Presentation program

Thank you

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