West Lafayette, IN -- October 13th, 2004 -- The Professional Writing Program at Purdue University has implemented an evolution in service learning called the Open Source Development and Documentation Project (OSDDP). As members of a community formed to integrate learning with the open source development model, students, teachers, and clients are working together to develop documentation of and related to open source. Through their involvement in the project, students are gaining valuable experience in collaboration much needed for professional development while building business and technical communication skills

Got Gaim?--an Open-source Option

We have chosen to write our white paper on the open-source program, Gaim. The title we are considering for this white paper is Got Gaim?--an Open-source Option. We have noted another white paper on the OSDDP site that covers GAIM, as well as a revision of that document. These documents are found at http://osddp.org/node/529. Gaim is a free multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) system for Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and BSD. It was originally written by Mark Spencer for Unix-like operating systems. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks at the same time; meaning that one can chat with a friend on Yahoo messenger and talk to another friend on MSN while using the same IM program. Gaim supports the following messengers: AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, Zephyr, OpenNAP, Internet Relay Chat, Rendezvous, and possibly many more as the program progresses. Gaim supports many known features of your regular IMs, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and it also offers spell checking, tabbed conversations, a buddy ticker, window transparency and much more than your common IMs offer. Gaim is under constant development, and new releases come out every third Thursday, if it meets a certain standard of quality; i.e. not a large number of serious bugs in it. As far as we know, developers are working to perfect their latest version of Gaim and they say that it is just around the corner.

Electronic Communication Monitoring in the Workplace

Marshall Remmele Jennifer Turner Brian Boyer Jon Maurus

Executive Summary

The dawn of the internet brought with it a boon to workplace efficiency. Shortly following this boon came a myriad of ways to use the same tools to waste time. Although most wasted time in the workplace is a result of surfing the internet, company managers are most concerned about misuse of electronic communication, primarily email. The rationale behind this is that employees will find a way to waste time, whether it is hanging around the water cooler or shopping e-Bay on the clock; email on the other hand, presents a new liability to intellectual property security. Many companies have emerged to offer a solution to this intellectual property risk by offering software that can monitor electronic workplace communication.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Hyemin Kim. Spring 06 was my first semester at Purdue. My major is accounting, and I consider MIS as a minor. I transfered the school of management from Maryland. My personal career goal is to be an auditor, so I hope to take an exam for auditors after two years. My favorite TV show is "the apprentice", but I missed last season because I didn't have a TV in my room. Hopefully, next fall I will get one while I move to Hawkins Hall. Also, I love baseball. Especially I'm a red sox fan. During this summer, I hope this class and any activity will be helpful and fun.

Hi class,
My name is Josh Gillam. I am a fifth year senior with the Krannert School of Management. I am concentrating in accounting with a minor in Management Information Systems. I am a partial owner of a company with my two brothers. Last year we almost broke even in accrual based accounting system. Our company is a professional based race team with specialty in marketing. We have major sales from JPC, RGR, Motive Gear, and Harland Sharp. With our success in racing it has allowed us to get client vehicles to do performance upgrades to. We currently still run the company out of our house, but are looking at acquiring a location in Chicago to open a store front. Being part of this company takes a great deal of time from me, which makes me have to put college second some times.

My name is Gina Chen. I was born on April 24, 1984 in St. Louis, Missouri. I am a 5th year senior in the School of Management. My major is both Accounting and Management. I also have a minor in both International Business and Finance. My hobbies include eating, scrap booking, getting manicures and pedicures and taking long naps between classes. My favorite show is Friends and I love to watch MTV. I love my two cats Buddie and Allie (they live with me in my apartment!!!) . My favorite color is pink. I drive a spicy mustard colored Civic that you might have seen on campus!!!!

In white paper projects of ENGL421, our group has researched and discussed the influence of open source movement in Human Genome Project. Our main target audience is a scientist involved or interested in the Human Genome Project. Especially, we introduce the open source services aviable in the homepage of National Center for Biotechnology Information in our white paper.

whaBAM! a Contender for eBay
By: Chris Bohacek, Tim Dres, Keith Mack, Marco Rea

Executive Summary
The following paper examines a specific case of how a company can benefit from using open source software in the business world. It explores two companies that are similar in the services that they perform but differ in philosophies. One company utilizes open source software while the other is licensing from a proprietary vendor.

The open source based company is whaBAM!, an online auction site. whaBAM!, still in its infancy, offers many benefits to buyers and sellers seeking an alternative to eBay. Although whaBAM! is still young, it has a promising future. By offering more services at lower prices, whaBAM! is hoping to convert victims of eBay’s constantly rising prices and endless fees to their simplified structure. This report analyzes the functions of these two companies in an effort to bring forth the benefits of open source solutions.

Open Source Software as Solution in State Funded Community Colleges Rachel Cumberbatch JC Preston Becky Mercer Peter Schroeder Executive Summary Community colleges have become extremely important in the world of higher education. The system has matured from the idea of serving as a transfer school to degree granting state colleges. Community colleges normally admit students from the community, verses state colleges who serve a much larger population. The colleges run on an open admission which means that anyone with a high school diploma or a GED can be educated at the school. The policy can be beneficial and allows students with lower testing skills or academic preparedness to work towards a degree.