JISC

 

Building and maintaining a community of users and contributors is key to creating a successful open development project. This OSS Watch workshop will be particularly suitable for principal investigators, project managers and software developers in UK higher and further education institutions who plan to employ open development practices in planning, managing and further developing their projects beyond the initial funding grant.

The workshop will examine what open source development is and how open source communities are created and sustained. It will highlight management and governance structures common in these projects, and discuss common problems that prevent open communities from emerging and collaborating successfully.

At the end of the workshop the participants will:

• Recognise why community is important to academic open development projects
• Understand how a typical open development community is created and maintained
• Recognise common management structures for open development communities
• Appreciate some of the common mistakes associated with building open development communities

 

Programme

Time	Programme Activity
09.30 - 10.00	Registration
10.00 - 10.10	Welcome
10.10 - 10.50	Ross Gardler, OSS Watch What is Open Development?
10.50 - 11.30	Gianugo Rabellino, Sourcesense The Power of Community-Led Software
11.30 - 11.45	Break
11.45 - 12.30	Simon Mather, UFI/learndirect Barriers to Community
12.30 - 13.15	Lunch
13.15 - 14.05	Afternoon strands: Strand A - Developers and Project Managers: Tools and Processes Strand B - Project Managers and Principal Investigators: Project Governance
14.05 - 14.25	Break
14.25 - 15.15	Afternoon strands continued
15.15 - 15.30	Break
15.30 - 16.00	The Road Ahead

Lunch and refreshments will be provided. After the event attendees are welcome to come to an informal gathering with OSS Watch at a nearby pub.

The workshop is free to UK higher and further education, but registration is required.

Registration Information

For further information please contact info@oss-watch.ac.uk