Comments on: Business Models Workshop Live Blog – 12th Jan

By: Ross Gardler

Ross Gardler — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:35:16 +0000

MJ the archive link is the link to the live blog coverage, it is not a discussion but what the live blogger and some commentators had to say as the event took place. There will be a full report from the workshop, but it takes time to pull all the information together and get it through our very strict quality control processes.

Re coverage of cooperative models, see slide 8 from Rowan Wilsons presentation, titled “Academic Community Development”. The first bullet gives away what this was about, but it doesn’t include the word “cooperative” in the slide, thus you probably missed the topic this covered:

“OSS licensing permits a varied group of contributors to work on software that addresses a particular problem domain.”

Rowan also talked about cost reduction through cooperative development on this slide. However, we do agree it should really have had a separate slide to make it clear that it is a separate business model.

Thanks for your feedback.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:52:09 +0000

Thanks for the coverage. The archive link in the previous comment seems to go to some discussion of the live blogging system, although the heading is correct – what’s wrong with it?

I was referred to the slides when I mentioned on the twitter or the live blog that cooperative models didn’t seem to be discussed in the business models session. I’ve looked at the slides and still don’t see any mention. A significant omission from a fairly good event.

By: Ross Gardler

Ross Gardler — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:19:42 +0000

Thanks for the encouraging comments.

All slides are now available in PDF, as is the archive from the live blog.

By: Russell Nicholls

Russell Nicholls — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:22:18 +0000

Many thanks to all at OSS Watch for running a great workshop on sustainability models for FOSS. It answered lots of questions, but posed some more and I am going to be in touch about a specific project.

The examples from Rhys and Symbian made lots of sense and put lots into perspective.

Best wishes,
Russell

By: Damian Flannery

Damian Flannery — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:27:05 +0000

Guys, thanks for putting on such a great workshop yesterday. I went home with a much clearer picture of all the issues relating to open sourcing a project. I still have many questions though, especially at the more technical / process level so I’ll probably be in touch soon. Wish I could have made it along to the pub afterwards!

Cheers,
Damian

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:48:16 +0000

Well, the official messages (like the one above) linked to search.twitter.com and del.icio.us – I don’t think the FOSS competitors were given a fair crack.

The download link on the slideshare page only appears for registered users. I don’t have time to review slideshare’s N pages of legal waffle today (trying to get ready for the Council Tax setting meeting as well as work) and I can’t remember the legal context OTTOMH – in particular who wins between USA Inc’s and UK laws on privacy, distance selling and unfair contract terms.

By: Ross Gardler

Ross Gardler — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:23:35 +0000

It would be nice to use identi.ca but we don’t define what tool people use, we simply said the event tag is #ossw – the people selected twitter not us

As for the slides, there is a download link on the slideshare page, click it and you’ll get OpenOffice.org versions

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:44:42 +0000

“Flash Player 9 (or above) is needed to view slideshows” and “No transcript available” on slideshare.net for the second presentation. Can the notes appear as html, PDF or something else open, please?

I sometimes feel like I’m single-handedly trying to keep the “open source” buzz available to actual users of open source. Why doesn’t this seem to be worrying more people?

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:42:17 +0000

Just a small note: CoverItLive seems to require javascript to allow comments, so set your NoScript.net settings appropriately, else it becomes watch-only. You could still feedback through twitter – shame it’s not using http://identi.ca/tag/ossw though