Conference: Leveraging the OS community for business

Something to rectify the recent lack of comment on opensource issues:

• OSS 2.0 – Leveraging the Open Source community for business
  The focus of contributions should be on the ways in which business can be built around OSS, with a particular attention to the role of communities. Submissions are invited for theoretical and empirical research papers. It’s on 10 September in Turin. (Hat tip: Dirk Riehe)
  (tags: conference italy europe opensource 2008 business)

Dirk Riehe has been exploring the issues around how FLOSS can fit into the business world – have a read of this and the links from it if you’re interested:

• Open Source is a Business Strategy not a Business Model
  Key point: open source is a business strategy, in support of a business model. You still need to know how to make money, and it doesn’t happen by giving software away for free.
  (tags: opensource business blog 2008)