This document discusses open source software and its importance for students. It covers key topics like what open source means, important open source components and organizations, how open source can help with development, documentation, and distributions for students. It also provides tips for getting involved with open source like communicating, trying innovations, and participating.

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2. What is Open Source?

5. Open Source And Students 3 D's Are Important

8. What makes your software awesome?

9. Learnability

10. Efficiency

11. Retention

12. Few user errors

13. Satisfaction

14. It's all about the user

15. Whoever they might be

16. When users love the software then that's great software!

17. Technical Documentation

18. Why Document?

19. no one reads manuals! But ...

20. Beautiful documentation won't make crappy software any better But it might prevent some users from trying to stab you

21. Small POP Quiz? Which is the world's best Technical Innovation?

22. POP Quiz

26. Easier Way to do this is to......

27. Participate

28. Spot the difference

30. Statistics By 2011,80% of the software used by small and large companies will have code that is open sourced -Dave Johnson,President Apache Foundation