Tuesday, 29 March, 2011 at 9:30 AM - Wednesday, 30 March, 2011 at 4:00 PM (GMT)
Venue: Trinity College, Oxford, OX1 3BH
Please note this event has now taken place. This page and its associated resources provide access to details of the event and the presentations that took place there. You may also like to read the Open Source Junction event report.
OSS Watch in collaboration with 100% Open have put together Open Source Junction - an exciting series of events connecting industry and academic innovation in open source mobile technologies. The first event in the series focused on open source cross-platform mobile apps. This two-day workshop showed delegates how to manage the co-production of cross-platform mobile apps in an open development context. The participants received the knowledge and opportunities to set up open source industry-academia partnerships relevant to the mobile apps space.
The event took place at the historic Trinity College in central Oxford. Lunch and refreshments were provided. A number of accommodation options were available for individual booking.
Attendees were able to have a look at the reading list for this event for background information on the issues that were explored at the workshop.
Programme: The programme consisted of two days of general presentations and interactive sessions:
Open Source Junction: Cross-platform Mobile Apps is an event organized by OSS Watch in collaboration with 100% Open.
OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on the use, development, and licensing of free and open source software. OSS Watch is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and its services are available free-of-charge to UK higher and further education. TransferSummit, OSS Watch's annual conference, provides a forum for business executives and members of the academic and research community to address challenges and opportunities for the development and use of open source technology.
100% Open is a new open innovation agency spun out of NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Since 2006 we have partnered many of the world’s most successful innovation companies. Our open innovation programmes have created value for Procter & Gamble, Oracle, Virgin Atlantic, Tesco, Orange, Discovery Channel, Shop Direct, Cancer Research UK, McLaren, NATS, Pfizer and BT.
Trinity College, in the heart of Oxford, was founded in 1555 and its earliest buildings date from 1421, when an earlier monastic foundation, Durham College, occupied the site. Although one of the smallest colleges in terms of students, the site is large with extensive gardens. The Bodleian Library and other major University buildings are only a few yards from the front entrance on Broad Street. Danson Room, the workshop venue, has the look of an old library with leather-bound books lining the walls. Lunch will be served in the seventeenth-century hall with refectory-style tables and leather seated and backed chairs.
For accommodation at Trinity College (the event venue) and other Oxford colleges you can book online at Oxford Rooms. Alternatively a number of nice hotels are available in Oxford, some of which are listed below:
If none of these is appropriate, you could look on Oxford's Daily Info site for more recommendations.
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