Open Options consists of information regarding the history, practice, and philosophy surrounding the F/OSS communities. It was sewn together and cross-linked by Jon Satrom at Marwen in an effort to provide art teachers with affordable solutions for their classrooms.

Open Options seeks to make media creation, content dissemination, and media literacy easier for teachers, schools and organizations.

When the tools and concepts of digital media production/creation are presented in an affordable, accessible, open context, the language of digital media grows to include the unique and diverse voices that surround us within our communities.

Empowered by F/OSS (Free and Open Source Software) and driven by the need to communicate, we as consumers of media are now able to create, re-mix, recontextualize, comment upon, challenge and participate in the traditionally monophonic media sphere.

Open Options 2006
presented at NAEA onsite at Marwen in Chicago by Jon Satrom and Marwen

Open Options 2007
presented at NAEA by Scott Lundius,Katie Rodrigues, Jon Satrom and Marwen

To the right you can explore an ever growing list of open source articles, documents, and tools.