Building Open Source Communities

by Randolph Metcalfe on 1 May 2005

Introduction

Building Open Source Communities is a one-day conference held in Edinburgh that addresses such topics as:

• how do open source software projects organise themselves
• why do some projects grow rapidly
• how does the licence choice affect the kind of community that develops
• what is the relationship between developers and end-users
• how important is leadership

These questions and more will be addressed by

• Jim Farmer, uPortal and Sakai
• Sean Keogh, Moodle
• Bill Olivier, JISC
• Gustav Delius, University of York
• Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University Computing Services
• Hugh Robinson, The Open University
• Helen Sharp, The Open University
• Andrew Savory, Luminas
• and others

Building Open Source Communities is organised by OSS Watch, http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/, the open source software advisory service for UK HE and FE. For further information contact info@oss-watch.ac.uk.