OSS Watch in Oxford

I am at Oxford in the UK (staying at Hertford College Graduate Center) for a few days for the OSS Watch workshop on Profiling Open Source Communities.

OSS Watch is the JISC funded open source advisory service to UK HE and FE, hosted by the Oxford University Computing Services.

This is an invitation only workshop designed to assist OSS Watch in their strategic planning of activities for the next two years.

OSS Watch is the National Advisory Service on open source for UK Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE). As such, it is part of our remit to help FE and HE institutions and projects who want to engage with open source development, and a key factor for that is the development of open source communities.

I got in this morning at 06:30 (GMT). Found a coffee shop, found an ethernet cable, got laptop going, and went for a 6-mile run along the Thames. Got lost. (I had no map!) Found my way again easily. It is very beautiful here. My plan is to get up early tomorrow morning and go for another run. This weather is too good to pass up, and the scenery is amazing.