Organisation and management issues, sustainability and support infrastuctural needs for OSS

This area contains resources and activities for the Working Group on Organisation and management issues. One of the key issues in open-source is how to increase its ability to sustain and manage strageic development paths while maintaining its traditional strengths of self-organisation and freedom to branch into new problems. This WG will report in-depth on this issue.

Comparing Software Development Models: Structural Problems in the Cathedral and Bazaar metaphors [ Download ] (Comparing_Software_DevelopmentModels.pdf - 51.42 Kb ) Preview: This paper is a product of the working group on 'Organisation and management issues, sustainability and support infrastuctural needs for OSS'. It will be used as a starting point for an online discussion on the role of end-users in software development, which will be held from 1 november until 30 november 2004
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Free Software in Education: Is it a Viable Alternative [ Download ] (IMAC_amatriain_griffiths_15aug04.pdf - 150.52 Kb ) Preview: This paper by Xavier Amatriain and Dai Griffiths looks at the advantages of Free Software to an education institution, and describes an approach to the organisation of the transfer from proprietary to free software.
Open Source and IMS Learning Design: Building the Infrastructure for eLearning [ Download ] (griffiths12apr05_v2.pdf - 72.67 Kb ) Preview: This paper by Dai Griffiths, Josep Blat, Raymond Elferink and Sara Zondergeld looks at the implications of using open specifications for eLearning in FLOSS, and the organisational implications for both areas.
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