Not sure if you folks have seen this: View of Open For All: The OERu’s Next Generation Digital Learning Ecosystem | The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning but it explains our (the OER Foundation’s) “digital learning ecosystem” made up of a variety of FOSS services for educators and learners and our cost structure. We’ve got about 20k registered learners, and (last year) 200k visitors (anonymous) based on analytics… and our systems have substantial ‘head room’ - we expect that we could easily support 10 times more users with no additional capacity. Our annual hosting budget is well under USD10k - so current $0.50ish/participant per year. The costs for a fully Free and Open Source Software infrastructure are trivial for an organisation. I’m amazed at how much more others seem to feel they need to spend.
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