1. Sustainable Podcasting Ross Gardler OSS Watch Service Manager [email_address] http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk http://www.slideshare.net/rgardler/tags/osswatch Topic Tags: OSSWatch-Podcast and Podcastoxford2008

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2. Who Are OSS Watch?

JISC funded open source software advisory service(non-advocacy)

Online and Face to Face support

• Licencing and IPR management

• Open source project support

• Evaluating and using open source

• Business Models

3. Who is Ross Gardler?

Open source developer

• Member of The Apache Software Foundation

Joined OSS Watch in Jan 2007

Service Manager in July 2007

My focus is on open source for sustainability

4. What is sustainability?

The ongoing process of achieving development or redevelopment that does not undermine its physical or social systems of support. http://www.smarte.org/smarte/resource/sn-glossary.xml

• The economy

• The environment

• The Social System

5. A Sustainable Podcast Network? The Conversations Network

The Conversations Network is a listener-supported non-profit podcast network brought to you by a global team of passionate audio/video producers and editors. http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/

Lets look at their sustainability model

6. The Economy

Value-add paid membership

Donations

Sponsorship/Advertising

Commercial exploitation of software

Training and Consultancy

Barter ecosystem

7. The Environment

Managed work flows

• Cloud computing architecture

Creative Commons Licence

• Reusable across other environments

Promotesyourmessage

• Win-win partnerships

An environment for barter

8. The Social System

Community of volunteers (bartering)

• Find/Become a volunteer

Skills Development

• Apprenticeship programme

Peer recognition

Share and reward culture

• Encourage barter

9. What is missing from CN?

Focus is entirely on podcast production

Software solutions are entirely closed

Minimal community feedback into processes and tools

Relies on strength of distribution networks rather than adaptability of solutions

10. Is OpenCast similar to CN?

Process and/or tools?

What are your users focus?

• Own institution or wider community?

• Own materials or community materials?

Why should users come to OpenCast?

• What do you offer for barter that others don't?

PLUG: Remember tomorrows workshop

11. The $1b community

You need a good user base before you start getting contributions.

Those who contribute to us are as selfish as anybody else. There's rarely any charitable aspect of this.

Marten Mickos, (Sold MySQL for $1B)

12. Why build a community?

I think that innovation happens in encounters when you encounter other people and also when you step over some boundary and you combine ideas that haven't been combined before.

Marten Mickos, (Sold MySQL for $1B)

13. Community is everything

More users creates more opportunity for innovation

• Today's users may be tomorrows contributors or developers

More innovation means more users

More users means more sustainability opportunities

14. Building a Community Open development(or Community Led Development) A way for distributed team members tocollaboratively develop a shared resource 15. Open Development...

Particularly useful in distributed self selecting teams

• found in successful open source projects

Key attributes include:

• User engagement

• Transparency

• Collaboration

• Agility

16. Community Source is not Open Development?

Community source provides contracted resources at an early stage (no barter)

• Open development resources are not necessarily contracted (No guarantees)

Open development allows for wider, earlier barter no buy-in required

• But requires resources for managing and nurturing communitry

17. OSS Watch Strategic Projects

Open Development (community led)

• We believe community source is a sub-optimal community development model

Sustainability planning (from at bid stage)

Community development effort

• Project communities

• Inter-project communities

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• Is OpenCast an OSS Watch strategic project?

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Thank you for listening,

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Ross Gardler

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