What can we do to accelerate the adoption, development, and/or innovation towards open source software?

Question:
What can we do to accelerate the adoption, development, and/or innovation towards open source software?

Summary:
*Create: a "Most Bold Adoption of Open Source Software" awards program
*Create: an Open Source Conference for Libraries! Funded by grants from the leading open source advocates or sources/ should eschew and shut out any closed software corporate sponsors for the first five years.
*Create: an Open Source Library Software ThinkTank should be set up/ -again finding funding may be tough. But achieve-able
*Create/Ecourage Graduate schools programs in Information Science to develop Masters programs or minors within those masters to focus on and capitalize on this magnificent emerging trend.
*Create/Offer scholarships for Information Science students creating projects using open source software

Site:
Open Source Library Survey


Open Source Software Advisory Group

Wilfred "Bill" Drew
drewwe@morrisville.edu
SUNY Morrisville

Marie Noonan
marie@cdlc.org
Capital District Library Council

Christopher White
whitec2@sage.edu
The Sage Colleges

Tags: Open_source opensource open, iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,