Open Source Deployment and Development was the inaugural OSS Watch conference held on 11 December 2003 at the Martin Wood Complex, University of Oxford. It was a lively event with more than 140 people in attendance. The day also marked the launch of the OSS Watch Scoping Study Report.
Parallel workshops, available below as pdf files, were run on deployment and development issues.
Open source in academia - where are we?
Sebastian Rahtz, Manager OSS Watch and David Tannenbaum, Researcher, OSS Watch
Making the institutional case
Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd
How do you make an open source project?
Jon Maber, Bodington VLE Project
Ben Lund, Nature Publishing Group
Practical approaches and support
Paul Browning, University of Bristol
Getting the right licence
Andrew Charlesworth, University of Bristol
Does open source matter?
Nick McGrath, Microsoft Ltd
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