• Cost savings. There is very little up-front investment needed. 
  • Access to code and applications is easy (no procurement process, no licensing costs).
  • They are easy to install.
  • Installing new modules is easy and flexible.
  • Allows us to easily benefit from improvements and enhancements made by other organizations and shared via GitHub. 
  • Allows in-house improvements and enhancements to code to be shared with the Open Source Community. 
  • Crowd-sourcing events such as Hackathons can lead to improvements and enhancements from interested participants.