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The presentation was unique. [http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2008/?q=user/14 David Eaves ] played the role of an interviewer, tossing questions about the development of the Thunderbird community and how it compared to Firefox. [http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2008/?q=user/69 Dan Mosedale ] answered those questions as a true Thunderbird community builder.
David wasn't hired to be a programmer. He is a professional negotiator, who irons out relationship issues within a budding community.
Open Access is the free and unrestricted availability of research to the public, be it in libraries or over the Web. Publishers gain prestige by publishing papers in well-known journals, and the publishers (who sell the publishing service and the journals) get filthy rich. It is a concept that has been around for decades, and works well with copyright laws.
One of the biggest hurdles to overcome is that university libraries are comfortable with paying publishing fees. It is difficult to convince the libraries to divert some of their funding towards "open source" solutions.
Leslie Chan is a lecturer at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus. His work brings scientific journal access to developing countries around the world.
OS is (possibly) a tool whose use of utmost importance is to balance out the costs of Open Access.
