OSS Watch - independent expert advice on open source software
Description: Independent experts on free software, open source software, and open source hardware based at the University of Oxford

## Announcements

02/07/2013: OSS Watch services available to public sector on G-Cloud iii

15/02/2013: Important news about the future of the OSS Watch Service

## Open Source Options for Education

Updated 03/01/2014 Looking for open source alternatives to closed source software? We maintain a list of options for open source software for use in the education sector for everything from libraries and administration systems to subject-specific teaching tools. Wherever possible we also link to real-life examples and case studies of use by educators and institutions.

## Briefing Notes

We publish Briefing Notes covering a wide range of issues relating to open source software use and development.

Latest briefing notes:

### updated Moodle: a case study in sustainability

### updated Koha: a case study in open source project ownership

### new How to evaluate the sustainability of an open source project

### new What Is A Pull Request?

### updated Can You Contribute Code To An Open Source Project?

More Briefing Notes

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If you don't find what you are looking for please mail us and we will do our best to help.

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