how can we help you?

In some cases we are able to offer community building effort to projects that are committed to open development and open source. These strategic projects receive additional assistance from us in order to bridge the gap between open development requirements and the project's funded objectives.

JISC wrote a case study of OSS Watch in the FE Sector which describes the expertise and benefits OSS Watch can provide in the FE sector.

Not sure if we can help? Then please just mail us!

our content

In addition to tailored one-on-one consultations OSS watch's advice and guidance can come via our many and varied publications. The bulk of our published content consists of general material such as briefing notes, conference reports, opinion pieces, and book reviews. We also publish research studies and slideshow presentations. All of this content is published here on our website under a Creative Commons licence.

We take our written outputs seriously and strive very hard to ensure that our documents are both accurate and of a consistently high quality. The extensive research we perform for these documents ensures that our other outputs such as consultations, presentations, workshops, and conferences are of a similarly high standard. Each document is governed by our document life cycle policy which is described in The life of an OSS Watch document. As a result of this policy every document produced by OSS Watch is reviewed every 6 months throughtout its life in order to ensure consistency, quality, and integrity. You can be assured that everything we write is revisited regularly and so represents our current thinking.

the detail

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  • Aug08-Jan09 Progress Report
  • Feb-Aug09 Progress Report
  • OUCS OSS Watch report 08-09
  • Project proposal 2008-2010
  • VRE Report
• Advisory Committee
• Policies and Practices
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