This will most likely be old news for most—Waugh Partners released the first Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report following the census they conducted over the last year. This is it:
Industry, page 8 of the report.
Now with KLEPAS.ORG resurrected I wanted to briefly touch on it and entice those who haven’t yet seen it to download a copy. The report is licensed under a Creative Commons license and thus can be redistributed freely. A print copy is on its way—again see the census page above for more information.
Emloyment status pie chart.
I worked with Waugh Partners on the report producing their bar and pie graphs over the last few months. The work was done entirely using open source tools—namely Inkscape and Scribus. Working with Waugh Partners was a sincere pleasure: I was actively encouraged to use open source tools and of course got to have a sneak peak at the report. Thanks Jeff & Pia.
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Hey Pascal,
Well done. you should be proud of your work on this — the graphs really lift the report — stats alone are useful — but the eye-catching presentation makes them more interesting — and hopefully this means more people will grok the value of this important report.
Cheers, Donna
Thanks Pasc, and although we’ve said it before, great job!!
Tango for the win! I’m really looking forward to seeing your sexy charts in print. :-)
Nice work klenub, that graphs are amazing.
As a student of QUT, I don’t see much evidence of open source, contrary to the material in the report.Throughout all of my software engineering studies, we initially used Java, then moved onto C# and other aspects of the .NET environment.
I recall that QUT received a donation of XBox (the original ones) consoles as an incentive for the curriculum in the recently deployed (circa January 2007) games programming degree to include much of Microsoft’s XNA programming platform.
The majority of computer labs run Windows, however we do have a behemoth UNIX server (whether proprietary or open-source I’m not sure) which the engineering students make use of when programming C; and there are several large computer labs, which under the auspice of “data communications”, have been setup to triple-boot Windows XP, Windows 2000 (maybe 2003 these days) and the latest Fedora Core release.
Bearing in mind that I am now graduating; perhaps their open-source efforts are new over the last year or two and confined to first and second-year courses. However, while I was there I personally did not see any open-source teachings beyond the use of Fedora Core and a single unit of Linux System Administration. All of the programming technologies we used were proprietary and usually Microsoft.