Can You Do FOSS in Your Library?
Location
Mary Idema Pew Library at Grand Valley State University
Event Website
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Midwest
Start Date
24-7-2014 10:00 AM
Description
Can you do Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) at your library if you're a small, one-person shop? How do you figure it out? I've made plenty of mistakes along the way, and I thought maybe others might find what I've figured out useful. As a community that values free/open source, it can be really difficult to assess if you're starting out in your career and you're pretty much "the technology person" at your library (I suspect there are a lot of us in this boat). In addition to mistakes, I've had some successes too, which I'll also share about - it's not all bad news!
Can You Do FOSS in Your Library?
Mary Idema Pew Library at Grand Valley State University
Can you do Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) at your library if you're a small, one-person shop? How do you figure it out? I've made plenty of mistakes along the way, and I thought maybe others might find what I've figured out useful. As a community that values free/open source, it can be really difficult to assess if you're starting out in your career and you're pretty much "the technology person" at your library (I suspect there are a lot of us in this boat). In addition to mistakes, I've had some successes too, which I'll also share about - it's not all bad news!
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/c4lmw/2014/presentations/6