Of ioNetworks and CourseExchanges

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Of ioNetworks and CourseExchanges

• Selwyn Lloyd - Phosphorix

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About this session

• Phosphorix Open Source Statement
• Around the Phosphorix Web Site (where to get your
  grubby hands on our code)?
• Maturity, support and workshops
• Sustainability
• 2 Demonstrations (ioNetworkNode and
  CourseExchange)?
• If time... questions

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The Phosphorix Open Source Statement

• A statement was made to clarify our position as
  partners on JISC projects or as developers for
  hire for release on web
• We have evolved from offering a free to education
  model to offering OSI Approved licenses and
  public releases
• Where we hope to engage a community such as
  developers in education, we grant an Apache2
  license (ioMorph, ioNetworkNode)?
• Where we wish to control development we grant a
  GPL license
• In all cases we grant a royalty free,
  non-exclusive license to use develop or use the
  software

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Around the Phosphorix Web Site

• A web and extranet facility based on ioPortal
• Features individual product web sites and blogs
• play recording...

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Maturity and support

• Five years ago we were asked... We like ioNode...
  but what if your not around next year?
• ioNetworkNode and ioMorph are released under
  Apache 2, but maintained by Phosphorix this
  allows us to hand over to the community if ever
  we need to or indeed the community could take
  over
• We are building services and responsibilities
  which some call common sense and others analyse
  against open source maturity models
• Forums, FAQs, Commercial Support services etc

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Build an ioNetwork part demo

• We plan workshops to introduce the process of
  building and installing ioNetworks
• Obviously time is limited today
• Here is an installation we recorded earlier...
• Its very much first cut and hopefully is the
  start of good things to come (Thanks Dave and
  everyone back at the shed!!)

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Build an ioNetwork demo
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CourseExchange Demo

• CourseExchange comes in three parts these are
  individual web applications
• An ioNetworkNode may host one or more
  CourseExchange web apps, but only one hub per
  network
• The parts are CourseAgent(s), CourseHub and
  ioPortals
• Today we are showing a generic CourseExchange
  ioPortal however all our ioPortal projects have
  the ability to connect to one or more ioNetworks
  and the CourseHubs thereon (SOLVS, YHELLN, MOVE,
  PDP4XL2 and so on)

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Course Hub installation
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Course Agent installation
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Using CourseExchange
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Thank you

• If there is time... any questions?