Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007:
Next Steps for the Web Management Community
Workshop Session

A5: "Sustainable Services: Solidity based on Openness?"

This page provides details for the workshop session on "Sustainable Services: Solidity based on Openness?".

Title:

Sustainable Services: Solidity based on Openness?

Facilitator:

Ross Gardler, OSS Watch, University of Oxford and Andrew Savory, Managing Director, Sourcesense UK

Abstract:

What makes a service usable and sustainable? Is it one that offers you a service level agreement (SLA)? Or is it one that has sufficient clients that it is likely to survive long-term? And can a service that is principally a "social" service be sustainable? And how might communities of practice relate to the sustainability of an open service?

Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

• explore the underlining conditions of sustainability for services
• share experiences of services which either were or were not sustainable
• explore openness as a condition of sustainability
• gain a greater understanding of role openness might play in sustainable services

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Room Requirements:

PC and data projector.

Venue:

(V/122)

Time:

Monday 16^th July 2007 from 15:30-17:00

Contact Details

Ross Gardler OSS Watch University of Oxford Email: ross.gardler@oucs.ox.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)1865 283416

Andrew Savory Managing Director Sourcesense UK Email: a.savory@sourcesense.com Phone: +44 (0)870 741 6658