fOSSa 2014 will be in Rennes, France, on 19, 20 and 21 November 2014. This year the event has three themes: Crypto Currencies in context & let’s look under the hood Open knowledge creation : Crowdsourcing scientific research The new hardware bazaar For more information and to register visit the fOSSa website. Sadly I won’t … Read more
Mobile World Congress is running this week in Barcelona. While it’s predicable that we’ve seen lots of Android phones, including the big unveiling of the Galaxy S5 from Samsung, I’ve found it interesting to see the coverage of the other devices powered by open source technologies. Mozilla announced their plans for a smartphone that could … Read more
I’ve just come back from a weekend in Liverpool helping organise and run OggCamp, the biggest Free Culture community event in the UK. While I can’t say for sure that it had the highest attendance of its 5-year run (numbers have been pretty much stable for the past 3 years), there’s several ways in which … Read more
A couple of months ago OSS Watch took the difficult decision to postpone Open Source Junction 5 – the latest in our series of events seeking to foster cross-sector innovation and partnerships. We’ve very pleased to announce that the event, which this time focuses is Open Source in the Public Sector, has now been rescheduled … Read more
In November, Mark and I will be in Mannheim, Germany as part of the TYPO3 Marketing Sprint Week, where we’ll be facilitating an OSS Watch workshop focussed on communications in open source communities. Effective communication in all its aspects is crucial for a healthy open source community, and we’re excited to be able to pull … Read more
I’ll be at ALT-C next Tuesday to talk about Open Source Options for Education as part of the “OERs and OSSs” session in the morning. I’ll also be around for the rest of the day so feel free to collar me for a chat about anything OSS-related! Here’s the session details to whet your appetite: Levelling … Read more
We’ve got a great variety of talks lined up for Open Source Junction 5 next month. We’re still finalising the programme, but here’s some teasers: We’ve got Sander van der Waal from the Open Knowledge Foundation who’ll be talking about CKAN and public sector open data. From LocalGovDigital we’ve got Phil Rumens, who’ll be looking … Read more
Last week OpenDirective held an Assistive Technology (AT) Summit at Mozilla’s London “Space” near Covent Garden. The event brought developers, researchers and other stakeholders in the AT industry together to foster open innovation and open business models around new or existing projects. The event was split over 2 days. The first day was dedicated to … 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. Over the last couple of years OSS Watch has run … Read more
Mobile technologies have become an integral part of our lives. Research indicates that by 2015 80% of people accessing the Internet will be doing so from mobile devices. Mobile applications and services are changing the way we engage with the web, and to a certain extent with each other. At the same time, cloud technologies deliver … Read more