Our Mission

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...

Results of Survey of Open Source Adoption and Usage

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.

Survey of Open Source Adoption and Usage

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.

OS Court Victory

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Open source license ruled enforceable, hippies rejoice

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

OSAAC Deliverables

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

OSAAC News

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



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