This is a guest post from the OpenScholar team at Gizra. A lot of public sector organisations have moved recently to an open source CMS solution, citing the benefits not just in cost but also in flexibility, and its great to see examples of universities following suit. If your university has a similar experience, tell us about … Read more
This is a guest post from Jim Farmer, Chairman of Instructional Media + Magic Inc. Jim has also written a series of feature articles on open source for Informa’s London-based Intellectual Property Magazine. Higher education has traditionally been a knowledge “sharing” environment. Early software was exchanged without license and, in practice, without restrictions. As the monetization … Read more
This is a guest post from Hunter from Project Yamina, one of the student-led projects that won a place in the Jisc Student Innovation programme. Here at OSS Watch we’re supporting the programme over the summer and advising students on their projects. Hi, my name is Hunter and I’m responsible for a new website called … Read more
This guest post has been contributed by Nicole C. Engard, author of Practical Open Source Software for Libraries. I’ve been teaching and researching open source software for what seems like ages, so sometimes I forget that other librarians don’t necessarily know about all of the great open source tools I do. There are a few must … 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
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 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 was written by Michelle Pauli, who also wrote the live blog at Open Source Junction. ‘More people pooling more resources in new ways is the history of civilisation’ Howard Rheingold Open source software features, in some form, in just about every mobile device. This has created huge opportunities for innovation, communication and … Read more
This guest post was written by Dr Gail Bradbrook, who works for Citizens Online, a charity that promotes digital inclusion. Fix the Web is, in the jargon of the day, a crowd-sourcing project with the aim of changing the face of web accessibility. It is led by Citizens Online, the national charity I work for. … Read more