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OSS Watch hosts a wide range of events as well as participating in events organised by others. If you have an event you would like OSS Watch to participate in, please let us know info@oss-watch.ac.uk. Please note: the listing of third-party events here does not consititute a recommendaton from OSS Watch.

OSS Watch events

OSS Watch is committed to holding a national conference every two years. These are opportunities for the UK further and higher education community to share best practice in the development and deployment of free and open source software. OSS Watch also organises focused workshops throughout the year. These workshops bring together members of the UK higher and further education community to discuss key issues surrounding free and open source software. Upcoming and past OSS Watch events include:

forthcoming events

Open Repositories 2012, Edinburgh, 9-13 July 2012 [Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:33 +0100] The seventh international Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) will take place at Edinburgh University 9-13 July 2012. The theme of the event - Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out - reflects the current move towards open content, 'augmented content', distributed systems and data delivery infrastructures. The conference will have both general conference sessions and open user group meetings for the three main open source repository platforms: DSpace, Fedora, and Eprints.  There will also be a strand for the popular 'Repository Fringe', an informal, creative gathering of repository managers and developers to coincide with the internationally well-known Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
OSS2012, Hammamet, Tunisia, 10-13 September 2012 [Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:39:57 +0000] OSS2012, the 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems will take place in Hammamet, Tunisia, 10-13 September 2012. The event aims to provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and the public sector, and diverse OSS initiatives can come together to share research findings and practical experiences.
Flossie: women and software libre, London, 25-26 May 2012 [Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:37:58 +0000] Flossie 2012 is an event for women who use or would like to use FLOSS in digital arts, NGOs, education and social change movements. Flossie 2012 will take place on 25-26 May 2012 at Queen Mary at University of London, where participants will come together across boundaries of discipline and sector to share ideas, skills and experience.

See previous events

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 (first published October 2005)
Author: Sebastian Rahtz

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