{"id":382,"date":"2003-12-17T01:36:04","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T09:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/17\/oss-watch-uk-based-open-source-advisory-service-from-jisc\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T01:36:04","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T09:36:04","slug":"oss-watch-uk-based-open-source-advisory-service-from-jisc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/17\/oss-watch-uk-based-open-source-advisory-service-from-jisc\/","title":{"rendered":"OSS Watch &#8211; UK-based Open SOurce Advisory Service from JISC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oss-watch.ac.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.oss-watch.ac.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cetis.ac.uk\/content2\/20031217162457\">great article from Wilbert Kraan at CETIS<\/a> comes mention of this new service, Open Source Software Watch (OSS Watch), aimed at providing &#8220;neutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software&#8221; to the U.K.&#8217;s higher education community. They are not focusing on a single type of open source application, but rather the gamut that can be found in the open source world, which makes a lot of sense as the issues in adopting any particular piece of open source software share much in common. This is a welcome addition to the service from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensector.org\/\">OpenSector<\/a> the news service which focuses more broadly on open source as it applies to the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look, too, at the &#8216;style&#8217; links at the bottom of the page &#8211; nicely built standards-compliant website that allows you to view the page in multiple formats at the click of a button (my guess would be by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/cocoon.apache.org\/\">Cocoon engine<\/a>). &#8211; <i>SWL<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.oss-watch.ac.uk\/ Via another great article from Wilbert Kraan at CETIS comes mention of this new service, Open Source Software Watch (OSS Watch), aimed at providing &#8220;neutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software&#8221; to the U.K.&#8217;s higher education community. They are not focusing on a single type of open source application, but rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/17\/oss-watch-uk-based-open-source-advisory-service-from-jisc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OSS Watch &#8211; UK-based Open SOurce Advisory Service from JISC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[301,396],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning-standards","tag-open_source","tag-standards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}