OSS Watch

A "serious" social networking tool. EMail is still the main communication mechanism, but with linkedin it is augmented with structured networking tools.

The Ubuntu UK podcast is presented by members of the United Kingdom's Ubuntu Linux community. We aim is to provide current, topical information about, and for, Ubuntu Linux users the world over. We cover all aspects of Ubuntu Linux and Free Software and appeal to everyone from the newest user to the oldest coder, from the command line to the latest GUI. Because the show is produced the Ubuntu UK community, the podcast is covered by the Ubuntu Code of Conduct and will therefore be suitable for all. Some Rights Reserved All contents of this site (including audio) are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

There is no crowd in crowdsourcing. There are only virtuosos, usually uniquely talented, highly trained people who have worked for decades in a field.

There is no crowd in crowdsourcing. There are only virtuosos, usually uniquely talented, highly trained people who have worked for decades in a field.

the war between open source and proprietary software is over - and moreover that open source has won.

the war between open source and proprietary software is over - and moreover that open source has won.

"TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it's a single file, it's very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick."

A great list of links relating to open source business models and development strategis.

A great list of links relating to open source business models and development strategis.

Done by Matthew Mascord; Includes a few open source ones

This video channel complements the OSS Watch website and features video interviews with key open source software stakeholders, and recorded events organised or attended by the OSS Watch team.

The new JISC strategy for 2010-2012 comes amid serious economic recession in the UK and abroad, and in a period of unprecedented change in communication and information technologies. JISC will therefore seek to continue seeding capability and collaborative working in the sector whilst at the same time enable students, researchers and teachers to thrive and excel in a digitally enabled world and equip universities and colleges with new ways of working faster and better than the competition.

OSS Watch promotes awareness and understanding of the legal, social, technical and economic issues that arise when educational institutions engage with free and open source software. It does this by providing unbiased advice and guidance to UK higher and further education.

Open source needs open processes

Indispensable advice about how to deal with poisonous people in open source communities.

Scrapes various catalogue sites to produce a DOAP catalogue.

OSS Watch's community development mailing list info.

A feature comparison of 9 social bookmarking tools.

A recent IDC study reveals that worldwide revenue from open source software (OSS) will grow at a 22.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $8.1 billion by 2013. This forecast is considerably higher than 2008 for three reasons: (1) the bottom-up list used to calculate the revenue has expanded through an exhaustive effort to include more projects in this forecast; (2) open source software has had a much higher level of acceptance over the past 12 months than previously expected, and; (3) the economy accelerated the uptake and use of open source software in the closing months of 2008.

highlight some differences of OSS business models in regards of the software stack being exploited: either a CCII (Common Content & Information Infrastructure) or a CEVA (Content Enabled Vertical Applications)

while we expect Open-Core to remain a significant business model for 'pure-play' open-source companies, and we expect to see more software licensed under the Apache license, we don't see the two as being directly related.

Let's concentrate on a very specific aspect: making money out of open source projects' participation, building proprietary software leveraging open source ones.

In a new study on open-source adoption in the business intelligence (BI) market, it's becoming clear that both the benefits and shortcomings of open source software are nearly universal across all technology segments.