Results of Survey of Open Source Adoption and Usage.

Thanks to all of you who participated in the Survey of Open Source Adoption and Usage. We have included the results of the survey (with any identifying comments redacted to ensure confidentiality). We have done some data analysis and are also providing the raw data in Microsoft Excel (.xls) format.

OSAAC will be conducting a Survey of Open Source Adoption and Usage. The survey consists of ten questions asking scholars and teachers of English to detail how and why they use open source software in their scholarship and teaching. More information about the survey can be found by following this link.

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Open source license ruled enforceable, hippies rejoice

by Nilay Patel, posted Aug 18th 2008 at 11:44AM

OSAAC plans on becoming a clearinghouse and inspiration for a range of research-based deliverables that will be of value to teachers, students, software developers, and academic administrators. OSAAC encourages researchers to use open source software in all phases of their research and the publication of their results in open access venues.

• surveys of open source usage
  • classroom/instructional use
  • research use
  • administrative use
• Sponsored Student media production competitions (i.e., best student-produced PSAs using Audacity)
• Public relations/marketing products for the OS community (posters, banner ads, viral videos)
• Usability testing and reports
• survey of the kinds of open source software teachers and administrators would like to see
  • audio, video, office productivity, video conferencing, etc.
• survey of barriers or obstacles to adoption of open source software
• advocacy for the adoption of open source software and engagement with the open source software community

If you missed us at Computers & Writing 2008, Ben McCorkle Twittered the session, which can be found below or here.

Other Free/Libre/Open Source Software Organizations and Resources

* The Open Source Initiative (OSI)

http://www.opensource.org/

* FLOSS SIG of the CCC

http://www.wrecking.org/write/index.php?title=FLOSS_SIG

* Free/Libre/Open Source Usability

http://www.flossusability.org

* FLOSS Usability Special Interest Group

http://flossusability.ist.psu.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

* O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON)

http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/cfp/13