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2005

  • B. Özel, K. Erkan, G. Çetin, Towards Open Source Software Adoption and Dissemination. A Collaborative Network of FLOSS Compentency Centers, Encuentro Internacional Sobre Conocimiento Libre (NEXU, Artes Graficas, Badajoz, 2005)

 

Technical papers & reports

  • Planning and implementing a F/OSS migration . Delivered for Short Term Action Plan 2005 (KDEP), Turkish  State Planning Agency, 2005.
  • Managerial, financial and social dimensions of F/OSS in public administrations. Delivered for Short Term Action Plan 2005 (KDEP), Turkish  State Planning Agency, 2005.
  • F/OSS Usability Report, Part A. (TOSSAD project): This report gives an overview of F/OSS usability projects and initiatives and includes the results of the usability survey conducted in 2006. Survey covers questions on OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Linux.
  • Usability involvement in F/OSS projects (TOSSAD project): This report tries answer the question “How can we achieve more usability within geographically distributed projects?”. We'll first define the basic characteristics of a F/OSS project and investigate the problems encountered that slow down the usability process and F/OSS development. In the following chapter, we analyse the F/OSS developers, i.e. why their interest in usability is not inline with their interest in feature adding for a software project. Then, we give advice and recommendations on how to attract and convince usability experts to participate in  F/OSS projects.
  • Tomorrow's F/OSS usability requirements and recommendations for future F/OSS usability research directions. (TOSSAD project)
  • F/OSS curriculum report (TOSSAD project): This document reports on the tOSSad project's efforts towards the development of F/OSS Curricula suitable for delivery in a range of educational settings. The need for F/OSS curricula arise for two principal reasons: (1) shortage of workforce skilled in F/OSS, (2) lack of components for basic knowledge on F/OSS in current curricula.
  • F/OSS Usability Test Report:(TOSSAD project): In this report, 28 subjects have been tested in order to analyse the usability issues of the open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0. The work has focused on interviewing and timing the test subjects as they complete a predefined given test schema.

Workshops

  • F/OSS usability workshop: Empowering F/OSS applications with a usability focus: designing for a successful project, in Cineca, Italy on December 25, 2006.
  • Ideas in F/OSS workshop: A local organization held in Middle East Technical University with 11 attendants from Syracuse University, Istanbul and Ankara with various backgrounds making research on F/OSS. Dated 11 July, 2007.
 
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