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'''Things Workshops I attended during FSOSS:'''
* ohai! art! - Pure Data Workshop
'''Presentations I attended:'''
* Enabling Healthy Open Source Communities: Case study -- Thunderbird
* Protecting You with Exploit Me
== ? Building the Thunderbird Community ==
'''Speaker's Background:'''
Professors do research in universities, and achieve great discoveries. The results of these findings are then published into a journal, which costs the professor a major fee. The publisher then exudes possession over this research, forbidding the professor from spreading that paper to third-world citizens or even the paper's co-author. The publishers then charge the university an exorbitant price for a few copies of that journal, which sit on a library shelf.
The fact is, the results of research aren't landing in the hands of those who need it, and the publishers are exacting a monopoly over this precious information. Research is only available when libraries purchase it.
'''Topic Summary: What Open Source can do for Open Access'''
One of the biggest hurdles to overcome is that university libraries are comfortable with paying publishing fees. It is difficult to convince the libraries to divert some of their funding towards "open source " solutions. Chan then began to describe how some sites charge for access to certain journals, while other sites offer the same information for free. Publishers will often seek grants for their publishing work: some grants require the publisher make the journals available on reputable free-access servers. All of this is good progress towards true Open Access
Throughout the entire presentation, I wasn't sure what Open Source had to do with Open Access.The journals themselves can't be open source, since they aren't made of code.The servers that host free access don't necessarily use open source code.
'''Views on Open Source:'''
OS is (possibly) a tool whose use of utmost importance is to balance out the costs of Open Access.
== My Current Views on Open Source ==
