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Community Building and Open Source Development Workshop


20 October 2008, 10:00 - 16:00
Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN


Building and maintaining a community of users and contributors is key to creating a successful open source development project. This OSS Watch workshop will be particularly suitable for software developers, project managers and principal investigators 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.

Programme:

- 09:30 - 10:00 Registration
- 10:00 - 10:10 Welcome
- 10:10 - 10:50 What is Open Development?
- 10:50 - 11:30 The Power of Community-Led Software Development
- 11:30 - 11:45 Break
- 11:45 - 12:30 Barriers to Community
- 12:30 - 13:15 Lunch
- 13:15 - 15:15 Afternoon strands (break into two groups, attendees may choose one or the other)
- Tools and Processes in Open Source Projects (Developers and Project Managers)
- Project Governance (Project Managers and Principal Investigators)

- 15:15 - 15:30 Break
- 15:30 - 16:00 The Road Ahead

Lunch and refreshments will be provided, and travel expenses will be reimbursed by the organizers.

The workshop is free to UK higher and further education, but registration is required. For further information and to register please visit:

http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2008-10-20/programme.xml.

Url corrected - thanks Visvanath for pointing out error.