This guest post has been contributed by Ross Gardler of OpenDirective. Ross is Vice President of Community Development at The Apache Software Foundation and a mentor at the Outercurve Foundation. Ross has been active in open development of open source software for over ten years. Over the last couple of years OSS Watch has run … Read more
This guest post has been contributed by Ross Gardler of OpenDirective. Ross is Vice President of Community Development at The Apache Software Foundation and a mentor at the Outercurve Foundation. Ross has been active in open development of open source software for over ten years. OSS Watch has been participating in the development of Apache … Read more
This guest post has been contributed by Naomi Korn and is based on a series of 10 Minute Blog entries that Naomi has written for the JISC funded OER IPR Support project, for which she is the Project Director. Naomi is the co-author, together with Charles Oppenheim of Licensing Open Data: A Practical Guide. Editor’s … Read more
This guest post was written by Sam Jordison, who also wrote the live blog at Open Source Junction 2. Following on from the platform built at Open Source Junction 1, this two day conference at Wolfson College Oxford developed the theme of industry-academia collaboration on open source mobile technologies. The focus this time was on … Read more
This guest post is contributed by Donna Reish, who writes on the topic of best universities. Dear OSS developers, I wanted to write to say thank you for the work that you do. Thank you for the hours you put into your projects. Thank you for developing them and updating them. Thank you for keeping … Read more
This guest post is contributed by Alvina Lopez, who writes on the topics of accredited online schools. What continues to surprise me most about open source software (OSS) development is how the particular mindset OSS embodies has seeped into an incredibly diverse range of discussion that transcends software itself. Daniel Pink‘s latest book Drive: The Surprising Truth … Read more
This post is by Paul Anderson, EPSRC Computer Science Writer of the Year 2007. Jono Bacon is the community manager for Ubuntu, a popular distribution of GNU-Linux. Based on his experience Jono has just written a book, published by O’Reilly but available under a Creative Commons Licence, about community and open source. Originally from England, … Read more
Sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking that OSS Watch publication production line has stalled. It can seem like we haven’t published any of our own material on the website for a while even though we have been blogging. And then a few articles pop out in quick succession. Take the last four weeks for example. … Read more
Sometimes you get a bit of luck and last month OSS Watch certainly got a bit of luck in that we managed to secure an interview with Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation and commonly regarded as the Father of Free Software. Stallman was speaking at a couple of events in Manchester at … Read more