Workshop Session A5:
"Community Building - Open Source and Open Content"
This page provides details for the workshop session on
"Community Building - Open Source and Open Content".
- Title:
- Community Building - Open Source and Open Content
- Facilitator:
-
Randy Metcalfe, Universiy of Oxford
- Abstract:
- Successful open source projects tend to build substantial communities of
users and developers. These communities are often facilitated by collaborative software
perhaps best exemplified by SourceForge. Open content sites such as Wikipedia
also generate substantial communities of user/developers. Here the remarkably
low barrier to becoming a contributor helps create a related kind of community.
This workshop explores key features of community development in the open source
and open content world. It considers how these could be put to use by
institutional Web sites.
- Learning Outcomes:
- At the end of the session participants will:
- Be aware of key features of community development
- Have an understanding of some of the differences between open source
and open content communities
- Have reflected upon what learning points are transferable to the
institutional Web environment
- Room Requirements:
- PC and data projector.
- Venue:
- Conference Room 3A (capacity 14/25).
See venue details.
- Time:
- This session took place from 16:00-17:30 on Wednesday 6th July 2005.
- Contact Details
- Randy Metcalfe
Research Technologies Service
Oxford University
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Phone: +44 1865 283 416
Email: info AT ox.ac.uk
- Web sites:
- <http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/>
