Thanks Yishay! On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Yishay Mor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Workshop: Business and Sustainability Models Around Free and Open Source > Software > > 12 January 2009, 10:00 - 16:00 > Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN > > Web page and on-line registration: > www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2009-01-12/programme.xml > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: 01865 283416 > > How can free and open source software (FOSS) contribute to a viable > sustainability model for software? How do people make money from > licensing their own work out under free and open source licences? This > OSS Watch workshop will focus on these questions and will be > particularly suitable for knowledge transfer professionals, project > managers, and principal investigators in UK higher and further education > institutions who plan to employ FOSS exploitation techniques to sustain > or monetize their code. > > The workshop will examine what sustainability models exist, what > licensing models they rely upon and who uses them. It will highlight > opportunities and risks inherent in current free and open source > software-based sustainability models and try to identify strategies that > are particularly suitable for use by the HE and FE community. > > At the end of the workshop the participants will: > > * Understand the varying licensing and community models that underlie > free and open source sustainability models. > * Have a greater familiarity with the most commonly-employed > sustainability models. > * Recognise where FOSS exploitation strategies may be of value. > > The workshop is free to UK higher and further education. > > Programme: > > * 09.30 Registration > * 10.00 Welcome & fundamentals of FOSS (Ross Gardler - OSS Watch) > * 11.00 Break > * 11.20 FOSS business and sustainability models (Rowan Wilson - OSS Watch) > * 12.20 Lunch > * 13.20 Managing a sustainable FOSS project alongside research (Rhys > Newman - JPC) > * 14.00 Running a foundation to contain your code (David Roberts - Symbian) > * 14.40 Break > * 15.00 Panel - What does this mean for you? > * 16.00 Finish
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