English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

Source: www.energysavers.gov by the United States department of Energy
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

As I have been looking online for some good resources to use for this project I have had some trouble. While looking I came across the website http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/opensource.html. This website contains a lot of information pertaining to what open source is all about. It contains information regarding different types of open source programming, the history of open source, and the benefits of using open source. The most resourceful part of the site would be the information pertaining to the benefits of open source programming.

The next ECM platform on the list is IBM’s FileNet P8.

This document highlights the information I found most useful from the website
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#password-manage
for my white paper project. This website features the advantages of Mozilla Firefox a web browser that provides a number of superior advantages in use.

Oh, crap, this is late-totally misread the calendar...

Please don't mark my group-mates off for not replying to this for the assignment as I'm just posting it now.

The images didn't show up when I printed to PDF for some reason, but there are supposed to be graphics there that are translucent-I made text boxes that explain this.

This week our group began researching our topic of Open Source vs. Microsoft, and began formulating some of the whitepaper designs. The research proceeded once we had agreed upon a solid primary audience and the motive of the whitepaper. Once we were able to break down our audience into a more specific set of user we found it would be easier to research the subject.

In my second research blog I will be summarizing the information that I have found from http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/tested-google-chrome-vs-ie8-v... for my white paper project. The information from this website has information from Tech Radar, which is a news source website that discusses emerging technology in all different categories.

Topic: Solar Radiation Maps

Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory

As I was doing my research for this white paper, I stumbled across some valuable information. I was looking for information in the form of text to reference for writing the body of our document, but I forgot that visuals are always helpful in relaying information. That’s when I saw many different variations of graphs, charts, and maps from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

The last piece of research I found seemed to gleam the most information for me. It had several sections outlining a list of open source software used cost savings versus capabilities gained, implicit savings in hardware, other implicit cost savings( such as security, lower virus vulnerability and upgrade costs) and finally the roadblock to using open source software.

Topic: Government Affairs

Source: Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)