© Oxford University Announcements from OSS Watch not including events en-GB Tue, 15 May 2012 12:12:06 +0100 http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ 1 undisclosed_email_address@ox.ac.uk (Elena Blanco) This month we start with a guest blog post from Ross Gardler of OpenDirective. Ross' experience as Vice President of Community Development at The Apache Software Foundation and a mentor at the Outercurve Foundation puts him in the perfect position to consider 'What makes a community led project work?' We follow this with a blog post from Rowan Wilson who is looking at an activity of standards creation bodies where they try to get patent owners to agree to 'fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory' (FRAND) terms in order to allow wide-spread use of the standard. In particular, Rowan tells us how this relates to the UK Government's Cabinet Office seeking to create a policy around the use of open standards in government IT. Finally, Sander van der Waal blogs about a very pertinent issue facing many researchers: what to do with the data collected as part of a research project. Sander urges us not to keep our data under the desk and introduces us to a project called DataStage that may well provide the solution to this perennial problem. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-05-15:121206:152:projects/oss-watch/announce http://newsletter.oss-watch.ac.uk/ Tue, 15 May 2012 12:12:06 +0100 OSS Watch Announcements