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How do Open Source advocates compete in the “Wide World of Giveaways?”

Developing an Open Source project is complicated, not only because the technology is untested and supported by volunteers (instead of paid engineers), but because it is not possible to predict how future development of the software will proceed.

Promoting Open Source Solutions requires a marketing plan.
Here is an outline that you can use to develop that plan.

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Of course, the key is to be able to show real student improvement data where the improvement is the direct result of projects and programs that relied on Open Source Solutions. (No “could be,” “if only,” or “we believe” here; but real-world, honest, matter-of fact, instructional delivery and student outcome results.)

This challenge is ours to win. Open Source can prevail if we focus on delivering an irresistible offer to teachers and students.

Zeal, passion and commitment are hallmarks of genius and great marketing. Just be sure that our Open Source promotions are balanced with specific, honest claims and a vision of the issues as seen through the eyes of the teachers and students that we wish to serve.

Apple™ understands that the business of education is our students’ learning, and the article focuses upon actual uses of the technology in the curriculum

Unless we bring in the ideas of stakeholders from all levels of our schools, unless we listen to every objection (and prize these objections as precious gifts that steer us away from a narrow view toward a more inclusive view, i.e., one that will actually work), our movement will succeed at a narrow level.

This resource site is not Open Source, but the site’s focus upon quality information provides an information service benchmark that Open Source projects can aspire to.