Open Source and Sustainability 2006
by Elena Blanco on 25 April 2006
Introduction
Open Source and Sustainability 2006
Open Source and Sustainability was a 3-day conference exploring the theme of open source sustainability held on 10-12 April 2006 at the Said Business School.
A report on the conference can be found here.
This conference looked at open source sustainability from the point of view of
- strategic funding bodies seeking to maximise their investment through open source development
- universities and colleges entangling their infrastructure and pedagogical environments with open source software
- software development projects seeking to perpetuate themselves through building communities
- businesses basing their sustainability on an open source business model
Plenary presentations and parallel sessions ran throughout each of the three days and are all available below. All presentations have been made available in PDF format except where the presentation is hosted elsewhere or was provided as html. The copyright on all presentations is retained by the authors and any specific licensing conditions are indicated on the presentation slides themselves. Where no licence is specified, please assume all rights are reserved.
Day one: Monday, 10 April 2006
Opening plenary session
- John Norman (CARET, Cambridge): Welcome
- James Dalziel (Macquarie University, Sydney): Why sustainability matters for open and closed source software
- Rebecca Griffiths (Ithaka): The OOSS Study
Parallel sessions I
- Brian Kelly (UKOLN): Synergies Between Open Standards and Open Source
- Jono Bacon (OpenAdvantage): The Open Source Reality Check
- Randy Metcalfe (OSS Watch): Open Source: an introduction
Parallel sessions II
- Richard Rothwell (New College Worcester): Migrating to Open Source Servers on smaller networks and Karoshi
- Abubakar: Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP): An Emerging Cheapest Open Source Client Server Architecture for Businesses
- Andrew Savory (Luminas Ltd): Your open source strategy sucks!
- Stuart Yeates (OSS Watch): The Linux Kernel: evolving into sustainability
- Rowan Wilson (OSS Watch): The open source licensing framework
Day two: Tuesday, 11 April 2006
Opening plenary session
- Paul David (Stanford University and Oxford Internet Institute): A Multi-dimensional View of the “Sustainability” of Free & Open Source Software Development
- Niall Sclater (Open University Virtual Learning Environment Programme): Enhancing and Embedding a Mission-Critical Open Source Virtual Learning Environment
Parallel sessions I
- James Dalziel (Macquarie University, Sydney): Lessons from LAMS: The highs and lows of going open source
- David De Roure (Open Middle Infrastructure Institute): The OMII experience
Parallel sessions II
- Tom Franklin and Oleg Liber (Franklin Consulting): Development of a sustainable model for the support of an open source toolkit
- Colin Smith (WorldVistA): Developing an Open Source Health Information System for the 21st century
- Felix Klee (Linuxburg, Karlsruhe): Micropayments For Microtasks: An Experiment
- Peter Kirstein, Piers O’Hanlon, and Socrates Varakliotis (University College London): The UCL media tools past, present, and future
Parallel sessions III
- Elliot Smith (Open Advantage): Open source - walking into the sunset
- Prodromos Tsiavos (Creative Commons UK project, & University of Oslo): Open your mind: Participation, transparency and openness in the Creative Commons project in the context of Free/ Open Source principles
- G.W.Brian Owen (Simon Fraser University Library): Software @ SFU library: a work in progress
- Julie Walker (MIT): In Pursuit of Developing a Sustainable DSpace Open Source Community
Closing plenary session
- Simon Tindall (Sun Microsystems): Redefining the IT model towards the Age of Participation
- Glyn Moody: Beyond Open Source
Day three: Wednesday, 12 April 2006
Opening plenary session
- Bill Olivier (JISC): Top-Slice & Open Source
- Aingaran Pillai (London Borough of Camden): APLAWS+ - An Institutional Open Source Community
- Mark Taylor (Opensource Consortium)
Parallel sessions
- Bill Olivier (JISC): Top-Slice & Open Source (discussion)
- Jacquie Kelly (JISC infoNet): It aint what you do, its the way that you do it, thats what gets results
- Kit Blake (Infrae, Rotterdam): Open Source in a Company Business Model
- Justin Tilton and Jim Farmer (instructional media + magic, inc): The Commercialization of Open Source Software
Final Plenary session
- Paul Everitt (Zope Europe Association): Open Source: Big Trends and Small Businesses
- Sarah Porter (JISC): Where next?