Extending the initiatives promoted by the Free/Libre/Open-Source Software Special Interest Group (FLOSS SIG), this organization will actively engage the open source community in a sustained relationship and help extend the movement's ethos in a variety of ways:

• making suggestions for the future development of open source software and services;
• offering rhetorical, analytical, and other nontechnical advice and support;
• describing how we use open source tools in our classrooms and scholarship;
• committing to an ongoing, long-term partnership with the open source community.

OSAAC argues that teachers and scholars of writing need to move beyond...