Full list of OSS Watch documents
by OSS Watch on 1 June 2005 , last updated
Introduction
OSS Watch Briefing Notes
- Open Source and the Cloud
- How to Evaluate the Sustainability of an Open Source Project
- What is a Pull Request?
- Koha: a case study in open source project ownership
- Open Source Options for Education
- Open Source Options: Making use of the Cabinet Office guidance on Open Source Software
- The GNU General Public License v3 - An Overview
- The Mozilla Public Licence version 2 - An Overview
- European Union Public Licence - An Overview
- Planning for sustainability
- What kind of licence should I choose?
- Wookie: a case study in sustainability
- Essential tools for running a community-led project
- Open innovation in software
- App stores and openness
- Roles in open source projects
- Release management in open source software projects
- Best practice in release management for open source projects
- Software Sustainability Maturity Model
- Sustainability lessons for research infrastructure
- How to engage OSS Watch in support of your project bid
- Open source and open innovation
- Community lessons for research infrastructure
- Open source and research infrastructure
- Governance models
- Meritocratic governance model
- Benevolent dictator governance model
- Creating a project on SourceForge
- Microsoft: an end to open hostilities?
- Free and open source software business and sustainability models
- The Eclipse Public License - An Overview
- ATutor LMS: a case study
- Making your code available under an open source licence
- Advice for project bids
- Open source: facing a skills shortage
- Reuse Readiness Rating
- TexGen: a case study
- Avoiding abandon-ware: getting to grips with the open development method
- The business of open source
- Meritocrats, cluebats and the open development method: an interview with Justin Erenkrantz
- Free and open source software in mobile devices
- The JISC Virtual Research Environment Phase Two Programme: Attitudes to and Awareness of Open Development
- Community source vs open source
- The community source development model
- Sustainable open source
- Decision factors for open source software procurement
- Richard Stallman on the road less travelled
- Is open source software insecure? An introduction to the issues
- GNU Affero General Public License v3 - An Overview
- MediaWiki: a case study in sustainability
- Free and open source software and your patents
- Common Public Attribution License - An Overview
- How to build an open source community
- What is a software patch?
- Contributor Licence Agreements
- WebPA: the road to sustainability
- GPL v3 - What’s New?
- Moodle: a case study in sustainability
- Exim: a case study in sustainability
- Benefits of Open Source Code
- Project Catalogues and Project Descriptors using DOAP
- Open Source Leadership: Debian
- Dual Licensing as a business model
- Can you contribute code to an open source project?
- The Apache License v2 - An Overview
- The Mozilla Public License v 1.1 - An Overview
- The Modified BSD License - An Overview
- The GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 - An Overview
- The GNU General Public License v2 - An Overview
- Creative Commons and Open Content
- A guide to participating in an open source software community
- Software Patents
- Open Source Development - An Introduction to Ownership and Licensing Issues
- What is version control? Why is it important for due diligence?
- Top Tips for Selecting Open Source Software
OSS Watch Conference Reports
- Open Source Junction 3: mobile technologies and the cloud, Oxford, 20-21 March 2012
- Open Source Junction 2: context-aware mobile technologies, Oxford, 5-6 July 2011
- Open Source Junction: cross-platform mobile apps, Oxford, 24-25 June 2010
- TransferSummit conference, Oxford, 24-25 June 2010
- Engaging developers workshop, Oxford, 9 October 2009
- Business and Sustainability Models workshop, Oxford, 12 January 2009
- From a trickle to a flood: building wide open communities in open source - Community and Open Source Development Workshop, Oxford, 20 October 2008
- Levelling the playing field: developing a mixed economy for software procurement - Risk Management in Open Source Procurement, Oxford, 18 March 2008
- SFLC Legal Summit For Software Freedom, New York, 12 October 2007
OSS Watch Reviews
- Open Source for the Enterprise - review
- Applied Software Project Management - review
- Open Sources 2.0: the continuing evolution - review
- Producing Open Source Software - review