What attracts me to open source is that there is room for learning, teaching, arguing, sharing, helping others, working hard on projects that you believe in and bring a part of something that is bigger than your own interest. Today I walked away from the symposium full of confidence that there is something for me in open source. Even though the projects that I will work on don’t exist yet, the framework is there for me to get started on them. The community exists. There are some really smart people who care a lot about this stuff and will keep it alive while at the same time passing along their enthusiasm and knowledge using tools that get more and more accessible each day.

I really want When considering open source products a new user, and especially an inexperienced user, should be able to see this count on a particular meaning of open source education structure where teachers and students are practically the same. Where learning and teaching is They should be able to trust that association without having to do the research themselves each time they want to try something done by both at any given timenew. I Just as a shopper would want to see businesses casting aside buy an organic apple and know that there are standards protecting the imperatives way that apple is grown, an open source association on a piece of creating and maintaining proprietary software and instead embracing their user base and starting to create with instead of for themshould inspire the same confidence.

I really want to know – My last thought on the subject - what does would open source government look like?