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Open Source Deployment and Development is a conference that explores some of the important
aspects of deploying and developing free and open source software in UK higher and further education.
The conference takes place on 11 December 2003 in the Martin Wood Complex, Clarendon
Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.
Programme:
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Registration |
| 10:30 - 11:45 |
Plenary: Open source in academia - where are we?
Sebastian Rahtz, Manager, OSS Watch
David Tannenbaum, Researcher, OSS Watch
Jim Farmer, JA-SIG
|
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
coffee/tea |
| 12:00 - 13:15 |
Workshop 1 (Deployment): Making the institutional
case
Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd
Brian Kelly, Web Focus, UKOLN
|
Workshop 2 (Development): How do you make an open source project?
Jon Maber, Bodington VLE Project
Ben Lund, Nature Publishing Group
|
| 13:15 - 14:15 |
Buffet lunch |
| 14:15 - 15:30 |
Workshop 1 (Deployment): Practical approaches and support
Paul Browning, University of Bristol
Henrik Omma, TheOpenCD
|
Workshop 2 (Development): Getting the right license
Matt Meyer, Eversheds LLP
Andrew Charlesworth, Senior Research Fellow & Director of Centre for IT and Law, University of Bristol
|
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
coffee/tea |
| 15:45 - 17:00 |
Plenary: Does open source matter?
Jeremy Wray, Business Development Executive, Public Sector, IBM
Nick McGrath, Head of Platform Strategy, Microsoft Ltd
|
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Drinks reception |
Open Source Deployment and Development is free, however, you must
register in order to attend.
Open Source D and D is organised by OSS Watch, http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/, the open source software advisory
service for UK HE and FE. For further information contact info@oss-watch.ac.uk.
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It is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales licence.
OSS Watch is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee.