%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2007 %T Evolution of an Open Source Strategy %A Kelly Rankin %A Ronald Baecker %X On June 8th, 2005, we officially launched the ePresence (http://epresence.tv/) Interactive Media Open Source Consortium, at the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), University of Toronto (UofT). We had been researching and developing ePresence, our webcasting, webconferencing, and archiving software project for about five years. Throughout the early phase of the project we used the system to produce live webcasts of KMDI's annual lecture series. Eventually word spread about our webcasting system and other universities, such as Memorial University in Newfoundland, became interested. It was obvious that the time to share our project with the world had come, but what wasn't obvious to us at the time was how we were going to do that. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 10/2007 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/68 %N October 2007 %9 Articles %1 University of Toronto Kelly Rankin is the Manager for the ePresence Open Source Consortium. She has given numerous ePresence demonstrations and has produced a number of webcast learning events, including, "The Business of Software" and the Project Open Source | Open Access keynote address. In addition to her activities as Consortium Manager, she is completing her Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. %2 University of Toronto Ronald Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell University Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, and founder and Chief Scientist of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. He is Principal Investigator of the Canada-wide NSERC Network for Effective Collaboration Technologies through Advanced Research (NECTAR) and Project Director, ePresence Interactive Media. Baecker is an active researcher, lecturer, and consultant on human-computer interaction and user interface design, and software entrepreneurship.