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Report on the Open Source Deployment andDevelopment Conference, 11
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December 2003
Document TitleFile Name137239.docFile SizePagesDocument RevisionNo.Last ModificationAuthor:Adrian Stevenson
 
Report on the Open Source Deployment and Development Conference, 11thDecember 2003
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................32. CONFERENCE TOPICS....................................................................................................................3
2.1 Open Source in academia – where are we now?............................................................32.2 Development: How Do You Make an Open Source Project?..........................................52.3 Deployment: Making the Institutional Case.....................................................................52.4 Deployment: Practical Approaches and Support.............................................................82.5 Does Open Source Matter?.............................................................................................9
3. REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................10
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Report on the Open Source Deployment and Development Conference, 11thDecember 2003
1. Introduction
 The Open Source Deployment and Development conference held at The Universityof Oxford on 11
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December 2004 was the inaugural conference of the JISC fundedOSS Watch Open Source Advisory Service [1]. The aim of OSS Watch is stated asfollows:“OSS Watch provides the UK further and higher education community withneutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software, andabout related open standards. Specifically, it offers:
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A web-based clearing-house for up to date information;
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conferences and workshops;
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focussed assistance for institutions and software projects consideringopen source;
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investigative reports.” The agenda covered the following topics:
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Open source in academia - where are we?
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Making the institutional case
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How do you make an open source project?
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Practical approaches and support
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Getting the right licence
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Does open source matter? This report briefly summarises the issues discussed on the day.
2. Conference Topics
2.1 Open Source in academia – where are we now?
Open Source Deployment and Development - Sebastian Rahtz, ManagerOSS Watch and David Tannenbaum, Researcher, OSS Watch
 The OSS Watch has been set up to provide institutions with neutral andauthoritative guidance about free and open source software including anyproblems using open source. OSS Watch aims to give practical support via itswebsite, focus groups and conferences giving IT managers, project developersand users advise. The OSS Watch does
not 
aim to persuade people to adopt opensource or provide a software repository. The OSS Watch have recently completed a scoping study looking at the currentsituation regarding the adoption of open source in the UK in general, as little wasknown previously. The number of respondents was fairly small with 34 from HEand 34 from FE. Some general results of the survey were that:
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88% of FE institutions reported that very few members had OSS skills.
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59% of HE institutions reported that staff had moderate to significant OSSskills.
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Current and planned deployment is most significant for networkingsystems (such as the widely adopted Apache web server) and operatingsystems (Linux).
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25% HE and 53% FE identified cost as the most important reason forchoosing OSS.
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