Many of you reading this post will have attended the one day Open for Business conference that was hosted as part of the Wuthering Bytes festival at the end of September. We recorded (almost) all the talks, to provide a permanent repository of information that will serve as an invaluable resource to those running, starting up or considering starting, their own open source business.
| Tariq Rashid | Opening keynote: Digital services | video | slides |
| Rob Blake | The best of times, the worst of times: The golden age of the modern web, open source and market commoditisation. | video | slides |
| Stuart Mackintosh | Discovering open source business models (or “hacking the IT industry”) | video | slides |
| Stuart Mackintosh | The Open Source Consortium: An introduction | video | slides |
| Rob Taylor | Thoughts from 10 years of open source business | video | |
| Scott Wilson | University R&D, technology transfer and FOSS | video | slides |
| Amanda Brock | Open source and commercial agreements | slides | |
| Peter Coates | Building a self-sustaining ecosystem of clinically led open digital solutions for the care community | video | slides |
| Robin Kennedy | Support for Innovation | video | slides |
| Cornelia Boldyreff | The BCS Open Source Specialist Group | video | slides |
| Adam Jollans | Closing keynote: IBM’s journey with open source | video | slides |
The entire video set is also available as a playlist, allowing you to relive the day in its entirety. Amanda Brock gave her talk via Skype, and unfortunately we were unable to capture the audio, but we are able to offer her slides.
The event was very well received by all who attended, and by popular request, we hope to run Open for Business again in the future.
Finally, my thanks to our hosts at Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Calderdale Council and our fellow sponsors, the BCS Open Source Specialist Group and the Open Source Consortium.
