Presentations previously developed by OSS Watch for conferences, workshops, site visits, etc., are available here as PDF files. Please contact us if you would prefer to access the presentation in a different format.

• Open Source Sustainability and Research Data Management, Nottingham 25 October 2012
• Open Source and Further Education, Discover JISC, TechDis, York, 24 October 2012
• Open Forges and Open App Stores, Open World Forum, Paris, 10 October 2012
• Community and Governance, University of Southampton ECS, LSL Labs seminar, 2 December 2010
• Introduction to open source accessibility International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, San Diego, US, 26 March 2010
• What is open source? South Western Regional Library Service meeting, Somerset, 16 March 2010
• Measuring Software Sustainability Open source schools cafe at BETT 2010, London, 14 Jan 2010
• Research Collaboration and Research Innovation All Hands Meeting 2009, Oxford, 7 Dec 2009
• Maavis@School RAatE 2009, Hilton, Coventry, 1 Dec 2009 (Joint presentation with Barnsley Assistive Technology Team)
• Open Development Sustainability through diversity University of Southampton ECS LSL Labs seminar, Southampton, 18 November 2009
• Developing a funding proposal with open source communities JISC Regional Support Centre South West Funding and Project Management Support Forum Bristol, 17 November 2009
• Enhanced Development through Community Engagement Regional Support Centre South West VLE and Internet Forum, Taunton, 4 November 2009
• Developing a funding proposal with OSS Watch Regional Support Centre East Midlands ILT Forum, Notingham, 23 October 2009
• Open accessibility Open Source Schools unconference, Nottingham, 20 July 2009
• Open source development and VLE procurement Manchester Metropolitan University, 30 June 2009
• FE Learners and open source Regional Support Centre South West Summer Conference, Weston Super Mare, 16 Jun 2009
• Using open source in FE Regional Support Centre South West event, Buckfast Abbey, 13 May 2009
• Open source software in Further Education in the UK Regional Support Centre South East event, Portsmouth, 3 March 2009
• Business and sustainability models around free and open source software (Rowan Wilson) OSS Watch Business and sustainability models workshop, Oxford, 12 January 2009
• Business and sustainability models around free and open source software (Ross Gardler) OSS Watch Business and sustainability models workshop, Oxford, 12 January 2009
• Open source software in Further Education in the UK BCS event, Newcastle, 29 October 2008
• Free and Open Source Software OUCS, Oxford, 10 April 2008
• Copyright in Software and Open Source licensing OUCS, Oxford, 12 February 2008
• Agile and Open Development (with Neil Chue Hong, OMII-UK) JISC e-Infrastructure Programme Meeting, Birmingham, 7 February 2008
• OSS Watch: Doing stuff Meeting with Libresoft project, Madrid, Spain, 20 December 2007
• Users Report and Feedback on the JISC Blogs Pilot JISC Comms Web2.0 Upskilling day, Oxford, 05 September 2007
• Institutional Engagement: open source software use in UK universities and colleges UCISA Distributed IT Support Staff conference, Oxford, 22 June 2007
• Open source software for the keen photographer Bytesize course, OUCS, 04 June 2007
• Comparison Shopping: Evaluating Open Source Wikis and VLEs AoC NILTA annual conference, Leeds, 20 March 2007
• The State of Open Source in Higher and Further Education UKUUG Summer Conference, Brighton, 29 June 2006
• What are all these distributions and how should I choose one? UKUUG Summer Conference, Brighton, 29 June 2006
• Open source software and the VLE Open Source VLEs: The Next Generation, Cambridge, 29 June 2006
• Institutional engagement with open source ITSS Annual Conference, Oxford, 22 June 2006
• What does open source mean for the institutional web manager? IWMW, Bath, 14-16 June 2006
• Engaging with open source RSC Northern Ireland Annual Conference, 1 June 2006
• Open source is for real, and it’s for you BCS Aberdeen, 31 May 2006
• Open Source: an introduction RSC Eastern E-Learning Forum, Ipswich, 28 April 2006
• Roads to Freedom: The Making of the GPL v3 Research Technologies Service, Oxford, 17 February 2006
• Open source - what is it good for? Research Technologies Service, Oxford, 3 February 2006
• Open source software and the VLE Open Source VLEs: The Next Generation, York, 14 December 2005

• An Introduction to Open Source, BCS Open Source Specialist Group, London, 12 December 2005

  • Introducing Open Source
  • Open Source Communities
• Models of exploitation with open source ISIS Innovation workshop, Oxford, 6 December 2005
• Managing institutional engagement with open source Online Educa Berlin, Berlin, 2 December 2005

• An Introduction to Creative Commons, ASLIB, London, 21 November 2005

  • Setting the scene: copyright in the UK
  • Implications and issues for information professionals
• Developing University Policies That Engage With Open Source Software, Open Source for Education in Europe, Heerlen, The Netherlands, 14-15 November 2005
• OSS Watch and the JISC policy on open source software, SocialSource 2005, London, 9 November 2005
• Engaging with open source, ICT Community of Practice, Scottish Further Education Unit, Stirling, 1 November 2005
• Open Source Mainstream, AoC NILTA Annual Technical Conference, York, 12 October 2005
• Open Source Sustainability, Digital Preservation and Asset Management and Digital Repositories: JISC Joint Programmes Meeting, Glasgow, 10 October 2005
• Open source policies for educational institutions, EUNIS 2005 conference, 23 June 2005
• Open source perspectives from the UK, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 25 May 2005
• Open source and support issues, Macquarie University E-Learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE), Australia, 24 May 2005
• Open source and support issues, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 23 May 2005
• Introduction to open source software, Software Libre conference, Universidade Nacional de Timor Leste, Dili, East Timor, 19 May 2005
• Practical implications of an open source policy for University researchers, presentation to the Coimbra Group, Edinburgh, 15 March 2005
• JISC Joint Programmes Meeting, Brighton, 7 July 2004
• RSC London meeting on open source VLEs, 11 June 2004
• Support Models for Open Source Deployment, 2nd OSS Watch conference, 3 June 2004
• Open Source Deployment and Development, OSS Watch inaugural conference, 11 December 2003
• The Licensing Minefield, ALT conference, 13 November 2003
• The JISC Advisory Service on Free and Open Source Software, part of Digital projects in Oxford series, 29 October 2003
• The UK Advisory Service on Free and Open Source Software, presented to the Common Solutions Group meeting at Dartmouth, 24 September 2003
• Free/open source programming, and software engineering, a presentation to the Oxford Internet Institute graduate summer school, August 2003.
• Open Source Software - what you need to know first presented at the 3 July 2003, JISC end of programme meeting, Warwick University

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