Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Union Staff, Leaders, and Activists

!Original credits Authored by Michelle Murrain, with Rich Cowan, Reuben Silvers, Anders Schneiderman, Amanda Hickman and Jamie McClelland Original review by Katrin Verclas, Carla Schroder and Andrew Gianni. Initial designed by Linda Roistacher. This primer was made possible by a grant from IBM International Foundation. In-kind contributions of staff time were provided by SEIU and Media Jumpstart. This booklet originally published by NOSI (Nonprofit Open Source Initiative) and copied here on July 10, 2005 for modification by the Communicate or Die community. !Copyright notice © 2005, Communicate or Die. This document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 License: You are free: *to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work *to make derivative works under the following conditions: *You must give the original author credit, *you may not use this work for commercial purposes, and *if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the author.