OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on the use, development, and licensing of free and open source software. OSS Watch is funded by the JISC and its services are available free-of-charge to UK higher and further education. If you want to find out more about open source software, we're the people to ask.
OSS Watch is an advisory service so we can help your project build an open development community but we cannot write your code for you.
We have a wide variety of resources covering a wide range of issues relating to open source software use and development. You can search our resources using the search box above or you can browse specific resources targetted at your particular role via the links below. If you don't find what you are looking for please mail us and we will do our best to help.
OSS Watch publishes a monthly newsletter that showcases specially selected content and blog items from OSS Watch along with news and events. We distribute print copies of the newsletter at events that we attend and we make online versions of the newsletter in PDF format available to view or download.
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OSS Watch is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee.