[Osia-members] Stats on Free Software?

[Irma Birchall]

Thank you Brendan for posting your question and Paul and Ryan for taking
the time to provide useful links and information.
A timely conversation as we were looking for an update as well.

Cheers,
Irma
www.calyx.net.au
Participating in the Open Source projects:
http://koha-community.org & http://kete.net.nz


On 9 April 2014 12:14, Ryan Cross <ryan at crossfunctional.net> wrote:

> Just came across this article which might be relevant
> http://readwrite.com/2014/04/07/open-source-software-cost-recruiting-participation
>
> It refers to a recent industry survey as well.
>
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> Ryan Cross
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> On 4 April 2014 18:31, Paul Foxworthy <paul at cohsoft.com.au> wrote:
>
>> A Gartner survey of 547 IT leaders in 11 countries conducted in 2011
>> found over half were using open source in their organizations. I
>> venture to suggest that many of the remaining organizations were also
>> using open source, but senior people weren't aware of it.
>>
>> See http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/1541414 .
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Paul Foxworthy
>>
>> On 4 April 2014 14:27, Daniel Jitnah <djitnah at greenwareit.com.au> wrote:
>> > I would very much wish there were more statistics and data on Open
>> > Source usage in Australia!!  The last comprehensive stats from what  I
>> > can recall are from the 2008 Waugh Partners report/survey - not exactly
>> > upto date!
>> >
>> > OSIA conducted a Member Survey last year, but really the data collected
>> > were not "statistical".  (It was more about attitudes and opinions than
>> > usage, and for OSIA's consumption.  However some usage data may possibly
>> > be extracted from the responses? ).
>> >
>> > Linux Australia also had a recent survey, but again I don't recall it
>> > having open source usage focus?
>> >
>> > It is something I was actually thinking about only a few days ago.  As
>> > you (Brendan) said, it is not an easy thing to collect systematically
>> > and reliably!  It really on depends what is being sought for.
>> >
>> > Perhaps the person who is interested may get in touch with me directly?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Daniel.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 04/04/14 12:32, Brendan Scott wrote:
>> >> I have been asked:
>> >>
>> >>> Do you know where I could get some upto date statistics on used of
>> >>> free software in Australia?
>> >>
>> >> I said I wasn't aware of anyone collecting these statistics, and that
>> >> the question itself is hard to interpret (eg all Android devices have
>> >> free software on them).
>> >>
>> >> If anyone has any further thoughts or information sources I will pass
>> >> them on.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Brendan
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