Building Open Source Communities

by Randolph Metcalfe on 1 May 2005

Introduction

Building Open Source Communities was a one-day conference held in Edinburgh that explored such topics as:

• how do open source software projects organise themselves
• why do some projects grow rapidly
• how does the licence choice affect the kind of community that develops
• what is the relationship between developers and end-users
• how important is leadership

Presentations (pdf):

Copyright for these presentations remains with the presenters. Used with permission.

• What is an open source software community? Sebastian Rahtz, Manager, OSS Watch
• Licences, Features, and Community: The Path to Sustainability Jim Farmer, Community Liaison, Sakai Educational Partners Program
• Co-located agile development Helen Sharp, The Open University
• Serving Maths: Experiences from a JISC Distributed e-Learning Project Gustav Delius, University of York
• Life and times in the Apache community Andrew Savory, Director, Luminas
• MoodleMoot: Meeting Real People from a Virtual Community Sean Keogh, UK Moodle Partner

Building Open Source Communities was 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.