Conveners
You wanted a bike, now you need to pedal
- Jan Meijer (Sikt)
Description
The use and production of open source software to power NREN service delivery comes with challenges unique to this software sourcing model. In this session we’ll explore a number of those challenges and share experiences in how to address them.
NRENs’ top priority is to produce value for their universities and institutions respectively their staff, researchers, teachers and students. Smaller budgets, the rising importance of digital autonomy and increased demands on integration contribute to increased use of Open Source Software in the NREN community. Why then did SWITCH decide to switch to a commercial product for their Video...
Most of digital services operated by RENATER for its community are based on Open-Source Software. We will go through RENATER’s contribution to these Open-Source software and expose the advantages and difficulties faced since many years: financial, human resources, sustainability… Do we have a way as NRENs to support OSS, and help our communities to get back control of their data? Or is it a...
eduVPN is being used by more 120 universities at their corporate VPN worldwide as well as by 17 NRENs as secure gateways to the public Internet. It aims to become the VPN standard for research and education. Who is paying for this? Is it good use of taxpayers' money? Given the price of commercial proprietary solutions for universities (around 40k EUR for a Danish university per year, for...
