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Google Summer of Code 2014 is nearly here – are you ready?
2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the Google Summer of Code, a competition that brings students and open source communities together through summer coding projects. Each year the competition gathers...
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5 lessons for OER from Open Source and Free Software
While the OER community owes some of its genesis to the open source and free software movements, there are some aspects of how and why these movements work that I think are missing or need greater...
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Open source in education: where does the change need to happen?
In our recent survey on free and open source software in the UK education sectors, we asked colleges and universities for their main reasons for not selecting an open source solution according to 12...
View ArticleKuali governance change may herald end of ‘Community Source’ model
For quite some time now at OSS Watch we’ve struggled with the model of “Community Source” promoted by some projects within the Higher Education sector. Originating with Sakai, and then continuing with...
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Locked into Free Software? Unpicking Kuali’s AGPL Strategy
Chuck Severance recently published a post entitled How to Achieve Vendor Lock-in with a Legit Open Source License – Affero GPL where he criticises the use of AGPL licenses, particularly its use – or at...
View ArticleGateway for Higher Education provides insight into research funding – and is...
Today Jisc announced the beta G4HE website. The site pulls data from the BIS-funded RCUK Gateway to Research API and provides an interface to allow searching and visualising data on research in the UK....
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The Wikipedia hoover
“Pick a frog, any frog” – an image automatically imported from PubMed to Wikipedia Back in August Wikimania came to London and I heard some interesting discussion there of Wikipedia’s approach to open...
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Open Source Software Licensing Trends
This is a guest post from Jim Farmer, Chairman of Instructional Media + Magic Inc. Jim has also written a series of feature articles on open source for Informa’s London-based Intellectual Property...
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Untangling the university web presence with OpenScholar
This is a guest post from the OpenScholar team at Gizra. A lot of public sector organisations have moved recently to an open source CMS solution, citing the benefits not just in cost but also in...
View ArticleNew OSS Watch videos!
As part of a project on Open Innovation at the University of Edinburgh, Scott Wilson from OSS Watch took part in a series of videos on software in open innovation, particularly open source. All the...
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