Nicole C. Baratta

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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.

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Authored Content

How do you educate others on what open source really is?

I've been educating library professionals about open source software for nearly seven years now, and sometimes I feel like I've made huge strides and other times, like today…

How to do open research: 5 basic principles

Getting started with Koha, an open source library system

When I think back, I can't remember my first involvement in the Koha community. I remember talking to Chris Cormack on Instant Messenger nearly everyday before ever really…

A list of open source software options from OSS Watch

I'm always on the lookout for open source software I might not already know about. I actually keep my own list on Delicious so that when people in workshops approach me and…

The year of open source in libraries

I hereby declare 2012 the year of open source in libraries! If not the year, it was still an impressive year for open source in libraries. It was 2004 when I first learned…

What government can learn from open source

I wanted to share my notes with you all from this TED talk with Clay Shirky. You can watch the video—and I recommend that you do—but since I took notes I figured I’d share my…

Should we require that open source is developed openly?

Roy Tennant wrote an interesting post about the definition of open source, in it he says: "Open source" should mean exactly that and nothing more—the source code of the…

Authored Comments

ncbaratta

1 Oct 2013

Open source programs to get more kids to code

Glad I could help your kids learn!! :)

ncbaratta

25 Jul 2013

An elevator pitch for open source

Joshua,

I totally do that too! I usually ask people what browser they use and more times than not it's an open source one and I ask them if they like it and if it's scary, etc etc.

Thanks for sharing!