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OSC at Open Source Search, Cambridge

Flax are sponsoring Open Source Search Cambridge 2009, a free event on 29th September that offers a chance to hear informal presentations from users and developers of open source search systems.

Geoff Gardiner of the Open Source Consortium has been given an opportunity to speak to the attendees about the OSC. Currently around 30 attendees are registered from the UK and mainland Europe, representing around 15 companies plus some universities.

A handful of places remain (at the time of writing) for any and all members of the open source search communities to register. Details of the event are here.

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OSC on BSI IST/41

The Open Source Consortium is to become a member of the BSI IST/41 committee.

Details of IST/41 are described here. It works on the UK's submission to the ISO on DIS 29500 (Office Open XML, or OOXML).

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Guardian Activate Summit 2009

OSC Members are entitled to a discount at the Guardian Activate Summit 2009 - Politics, economics, technology and society: Building a better future through the internet.

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OSC calls on MEPs to adopt the EIF

The Open Source Consortium calls on MEPs to adopt the European Interoperability Framework.

OSC Members, and others, who wish the use of information technology to be improved throughout Europe should write to their MEP candidates inviting them to support the European Interoperability Framework.

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BBC and IPTV: Project Canvas

The BBC Trust invited the Open Source Consortium to respond to their proposals on Project Canvas, a joint venture partnership to help enable the delivery of internet protocol television (IPTV).

Gerry Gavigan, the OSC's chairman, has prepared and submitted that response. The BBC's consultation paper does not address some of the most influential market-related and standards-related issues, which are specified and explained in the OSC's response.

And the OSC recommends that Project Canvas' specifications should be fully open, published and properly used by the project, so that anybody can provide solutions on any platform.

The OSC's Project Canvas response in full [PDF]

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