No contracts or agreements are required to join us, just a willingness and ability to actively participate in our collective endeavor to:

• encourage technological autonomy and provide ways for students, faculty and institutions to own and control their own data.
• lower the barrier to participation on the open web for BC faculty and students.
• provide a more sustainable ed tech infrastructure to BC higher education that gives institutions more control over their tools.  Institutions are currently at the mercy of vendor pricing, upgrade cycles, and exit strategies.  This puts institutions at a certain degree of risk when there are changes to any of the variables beyond their control.  Open-source approaches reduce the risk to institutions in this regard.
• assist BC faculty in evaluating and making informed pedagogical decisions around open-source teaching and learning applications.