This site provides deliverables produced as a part of the sponsored
research The Asia Open Source Software (OSS) Infrastructure Building
Program of The Center of the International Cooperation for
Computerization (CICC).
Download
Here you can download the OpenDocument version and the PDF version of slides and the guidebook of courses.
- Slides
- OpenDocument version (ODP, 10.0MB)
- PDF version (PDF, 8.8MB)
- "An Introduction to Open Source Software" --- the guidebook of courses
- OpenDocument version (ODT, 25.6MB)
- PDF version (PDF, 35.9MB)
License

These course materials and the guidebook are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
Table of Contents
- What is Open Source Software?
- OSS Application Fields and Installation of OSS
- Major OSS and Distributions
- Philosophy and History of Open Source Software
- OSS Development and the OSS Community
- OSS Business
- Case Studies in OSS Business
- OSS Government Policy and E-Government
- Features of OSS
- Issues with OSS
- Development Tools
- Maintaining Software and Development Examples
