Nicole C. Baratta

3287 points

Austin, TX

Nicole C. Baratta (Engard) is a Senior Content Strategist at Red Hat. She received her MLIS from Drexel University and her BA from Juniata College. Nicole volunteers as the Director of ChickTech Austin. Nicole is known for many different publications including her books “Library Mashups", "More Library Mashups", and "Practical Open Source Software for Libraries". Nicole can be reached at ncbaratta@gmail.com.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award 2013 Moderator's Choice Award 2016 Author Founding Member Open education Wordpress Community Manager Geek Contributor Club

Authored Content

Advanced analytics for the Internet of Things

I had the pleasure of interviewing Rosaria Silipo about her upcoming talk at OSCON: Advanced analytics for the Internet of Things. I recently taught a group of librarians…

How designers can contribute to open source

We all know that open source software isn't always pretty. Una Kravets, a front end developer at IBM, will be speaking at OSCON this year about getting more designers involved…

The evolution of the big data platform at Netflix

Eva Tse will be speaking at this year's OSCON about her experiences at Netflix in her talk entitled The evolution of the big data platform at Netflix. I caught up with Eva to…

Government and library open data using Creative Commons tools

Open source data integration with Karma

Karma is a free, an open source data integration tool that makes it easy to convert data from a variety of formats into linked data. I recently attended a half-day workshop on…

Beginners to Open Source, code background

What is open source? Licensing, history, and more

Recently, I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Gina Likins from Red Hat at the 2015 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC): South Central conference about…

How one professor saves students millions with his shared textbooks

I learned about David Lippman from an article on TeamOpen and realized I needed to talk to him more about his work in open education and open source. David is a professor at…

Authored Comments

ncbaratta

3 Jul 2014

Get what you paid for with open source

"How do you put a price on the generous spirit of OpenSource?"

I love that quote!!

ncbaratta

3 Jul 2014

Get what you paid for with open source

You're right, it does totally depend on the open source project, but trying to contribute (pay) doesn't cost anything but a little bit of time and it might end spectacularly. One thing I teach folks is that you have to evaluate the community around the open source software you're looking to use and decide if it's strong, open and responsive. In the case of the example I mention, Koha has an amazingly receptive community and awesome people using the software. So contributing in the form of bug reports, or time, or money will get you what you want.