Risk Management in Open Source Procurement

by Elena Blanco on 14 February 2008

Introduction

An OSS Watch workshop in association with the Open Source Consortium and Red Hat

18 March 2008, 10:00 - 15:30Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP

This event has now taken place but you can read the conference report.

The workshop programme was as follows:

• 09:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee
• 10:00 - 10:15 Welcome
• 10:15 - 10:40 Ross Gardler, OSS Watch - Engaging with Open Source (Biography and abstract)
• 10:45 - 11:10 Simon Mather, UFI/learndirect - User case study UFI/learndirect (Biography and abstract)
• 11:10 - 11:30 Coffee
• 11:30 - 11:55 Mark Taylor, Open Source Consortium - Engaging with the UK Open Source Industry (Biography and abstract)
• 11:55 - 12:30 John Lane - User case study: Imperial College (Biography and abstract)
• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

• 13:30 - 14:15 Panel Session I [break into 3 rooms]

  Room 1: Working with the Open Source Consortium (Biography and abstract)

  • Content Management - Andy McKay, Blue Fountain
  • CRM - Vince Blogg, Hubstone
  • Desktop - Chris Kenyon, Canonical
  • Infrastructure - Matthew Linden, Sirius
  • Training - Ian Lynch, INGOTS
  • Web 2.0 - Olli Aro, Clicks and Links

Room 2: Open Source explained by the users (Biography and abstract)

• Middleware - Simon Mather, UFI/learndirect
• Infrastructure - John Lane, Imperial College
• Linux automation - Boris Devouge, Red Hat
• Datacentre - Erica Langhi, Metamatrix
• Content management - Michael Farman, Alfresco
• Messaging and collaboration - Lars Ronning, Zimbra

Room 3: UK HE and FE Experiences (Biography and abstract)

• Tim Parkinson, OMII-UK
• Matthew Dovey, JISC Programme Director, e-Research
• Nicola Wilkinson, eLearning Systems Developer, WebPA, Loughborough University
• Ross Gardler, Service Manager, OSS Watch, University of Oxford

• 14:15 - 14:30 Coffee
• 14:30 - 15:15 Panel Session II [repeated as above, to allow participants to attend 2 panels]
• 15:15 - 15:30 Close