The OSA at Six Months –
Laying the Groundwork for Collective Action
In February 2007, OSA launched with a vision and ten founding members backing it up. Since then, we have made substantial progress, and have grown to 22 members, demonstrating that our activities are garnering broad support and lend themselves to broad participation. Now is a good time to reflect what we have accomplished and where we plan to go from here, and invite you to join us (if you haven’t already) at this important time. 

OSA Alert Customer Interview
There's a bright future for open source in the education arena. Associate Vice Chancellor and Deputy CIO of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Alfred Essa. discusses MnSCU's current use and future plans for technology and the key role open source will play. He foresees students collaborating through virtual environments, games and simulations.

OSA Alert Industry Leader Interview
Rod Beckström chairs TWIKI.NET and co-authored the bestseller The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. He shares his vision of the power of the open source model now that it has gone "from the Heath Kit model to the mainstream," and how open source solutions pose the most serious challenges to Microsoft's software dominance.