Australian Software Engineers Association often collaborates on a international level using technologies like the internet, however most software releases are released in Australia & are geared to work in Australian conditions, the software design model is that the software should be simple to use & easy to understand, though their are other international projects which the Australian Software Engineers Association works on which are often more complex & often involve contributions from academics on a international level using technologies like the internet. Australian Software Engineers Association works with Australian telecommunications providers like Telstra & Optus designing new devices which are geared to Australian working conditions. Australian Software Engineers Association preferred operating system at the moment is the Android Operating System, though in the past preferred operating system's were Windows & DOS. Australian Software Engineers Association generally use the Linux operating system as their workbench & from this Linux workbench software is designed which can operate on many different devices. Australian Software Engineers Association uses IRC Efnet server's & IRC freenode servers as their collaboration network & they operate under the #coders channel, the main base is on the oz.org IRC server in the #coders channel, but this channel is invite only, however Australian Software Engineers Association still uses IRC Efnet server's & IRC freenode servers as their open source collaboration network.
