You've heard about Linux and you're considering switching to it, at least for your network. You know that Linux has won many converts in the corporate world. But will it really work in the nonprofit world, where budgets are tight and IT staff are scarce?

To answer that question, NOSI is conducting a Total Cost of Onwership (TCO) study of Open Source on the back end for nonprofits. For this study, we are interviewing a wide variety of nonprofit organizations who have actually implemented open source. The goal of the study is to demonstrate what's involved in switching to Linux and whether the benefits outweigh the costs.

We are looking for people who are interested in helping out in the following ways:

• Case study subject: offer your organization as a case study. If you're organization uses open source in any way, please enter it in our examples database.
• Case study interviewer: interview a case study subject and write up the case study.
• Writer: help to write the report(s) and/or articles.
• Editor: read and edit drafts of case studies, reports, articles, etc.
• Web monkey: write up results of case studies for the NOSI web site
• Technical resource: help with technical questions, read drafts to catch technical problems.

If you are interested in getting involved, please contact us and let us know how you would like to help.