About

Open SUNY is a project designed to promote and support the implementation of open source software at State University of New York at Fredonia.

Promotion

  • Advocate use of open source
  • Educate the campus community about the benefits of open source
  • Address concerns some may have with adopting open source software
  • Inform the campus community about open source (and free) alternatives

Support

  • Educate the campus community about how to use open source
  • Help members of the campus community solve any problems they encounter
  • Offer the campus community tips on how to best use/apply open source software.

About Us
The contributors are SUNY Fredonia faculty who also happen to be open source enthusiasts. The open source community thrives on people giving back to the open source community. The contributors of this blog have benefited greatly from open source software, and believe in it. This site is their attempt to give back to the open source community.

While all of the contributors to this blog are faculty at SUNY Fredonia, we do not purport to express the opinions of SUNY Fredonia. Any opinions expressed in contributor posts should be taken to express the opinions of the author of the post and not of this site nor other contributors to this site.

About This Site
This site is designed to help implement the above goals. Here you will find information that explains what open source is and what the benefits are, identifies alternative open source software that’s out there that may be of use to academics/students. You’ll also find tips and tricks for how to get open source software to work for you and how it can be applied in your research, your learning, or your teaching. You’ll also get news about what’s going on in the open source community. Members of the campus community will eventually be able to come to us for support. If you have a question about open source software, you’ll be able to contact us. If one of us can help you we will.

Contact
For questions/comments/feedback or information about how you can get involved email Andrew Cullison. His email address is his last name, [at] fredonia [dot] edu.