ACM Interactions

Authors:
David Schlesinger

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Open source software has become more popular and more widely used every year. It runs most back-office server applications (Google runs its search and index system entirely on open source), is used in projects like the "One Laptop Per Child" initiative, and is making major inroads with cell phones and other mobile devices. There are a lot of exciting things happening, and—unlike with proprietary software—you can be directly involved. There's much interest in the open source world for user-experience programmers and designers. Currently, full user-interaction stacks like GTK+ are powering everything from desktop systems to cell phones, and high-end…

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