Resources

Over the years I have at times made presentations or written articles or even extended blog posts that seem to me now, looking back, still to be relevant. I gather here a few such items below that may warrant reading or viewing. 

Presentations:

• Open Source, the ILS, and the Opportunity of Engagement (pdf slideshow); from a 2008 NELINET workshop with Art Rhino and Mark Leggott; my talk was the opening overview of the day on the relevance of open source for academic libraries
• Institutional engagement with open source (pdf slideshow); from a 2006 talk to University of Oxford IT Support Staff
• What does open source mean for the institutional web manager? (pdf slideshow); a 2006 talk to the Institutional Web Managers Workshop
• Open Source: an introduction (pdf slideshow); a 2006 talk on open source

Articles:

• The Foundations of Open: evaluating aspects of openness in software projects jointly authored with Pia Waugh who was the principal author
• Sustainability Study: A case study review of open source sustainability models (pdf) (editor)
• Openness in Higher Education: Open Source, Open Standards, Open Access (pdf) jointly authored article with Brian Kelly and Scott Wilson published in ELPUB 2007 proceedings
• Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy published in Ariadne

Briefing notes and blog posts:

• What I look for in project governance (blog post)
• The Square of Engagement (blog post)
• Documentation: not just another pretty face (blog post)
• Communication in a small team (blog post)
• Building a community: email archive profile (blog post)
• Communities and meritocracies (blog post)
• Tips for engaging with FOSS communities (briefing note)
• Top tips for selecting open source software (briefing note); the first briefing note I ever wrote on open source software

For some years now I have been blogging on my interactions with open source software and related subjects on the blog RandM Thoughts. More recently I have been capturing some thoughts on my other joint passions, reading and writing literature, on the blog Transformative Explications.