FYI Open Source Business Review
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris McPhee <[hidden email]> Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:21 AM Subject: August Issue of OSBR Available + Important Announcement To: Chris McPhee <[hidden email]> Dear Readers, The August 2011 issue of the OSBR is now available at osbr.ca. For this issue of the OSBR, we issued a general invitation to authors to submit articles on the topics of open source business and the growth of early-stage technology companies. Anthony Casson and Leslie Hawthorn from Oregon State University describe the Open Source Lab, which is home to many of the world's leading open source projects. They describe the benefits the lab provides to the projects it supports and the real-word experiences and educational opportunities it provides to its student employees. Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), examines social interoperability as a parallel capability to technical interoperability. Using OSGeo as a case study, he highlights the importance of effective communication and relationships in enabling innovation within open source projects. Sandro Groganz, Co-Founder of Age of Peers, shares insights into the structures and relationships of vendor-led open source ecosystems to highlight the business strategies available to partners. Tony Wacheski, CEO of Anystone Technologies, shares the lessons he and his co-founder learned during their first year as entrepreneurs. He describes the company's first applications and the valuable development, marketing, and sales experience they provided. In the final article, I look back at four years of the OSBR and describe upcoming changes that will see the publication become the Technology Innovation Management Review starting in September. I describe how the OSBR started in July 2007, the knowledge gap it hoped to fill, and the diversity of topics and authors that filled its pages over 50 issues. Finally, I describe the new publication's broader scope, which formalizes a shift that has been gradually occurring over the four years of the OSBR. In September, we look forward to the first issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. We welcome your feedback and invite you to submit articles on the topics of managing innovation, entrepreneurship, open source business, economic development, or the growth of early-stage technology companies. Please contact me ([hidden email]) if you are interested in submitting an article for the August issue. Kind regards, Chris McPhee Editor, Open Source Business Resource http://www.osbr.ca If you no longer wish to receive email notifications from the OSBR, please send your request by email and I will unsubscribe you. ________________________________________________________________________ Open Source Business Resource http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr |
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