Below are some presentations or written articles or even extended blog posts that seem to me now, looking back, still to be relevant. You may find something useful here.
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