Summary of the event:

An evening meeting, where we will hear three talks on how to fund open source projects and businesses. This is a joint meeting with BCS Entrepreneurs, BCS Young Professionals Group, BCS Women and the UK Open Source Hardware User Group.

Each talk will last 30 minutes and include plenty of time for questions. I look forward to seeing you there.

Talk 1: Thinking differently: new approaches to funding the development of open source conservation technologies

Speaker: Alasdair Davies

An active conservationist and technologist all his working life, Alasdair Davies is combining his two passions with a third - openness
- - to bring affordable, customizable technology to the field through the Arribada Initiative. As a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, he is designing, developing and producing open source conservation technologies in partnership with leading wildlife charities such as WWF and the Zoological Society of London, employing open approaches and licences to drive down costs by introducing new community-based funding models.

Talk 2: Funding open - tactics and stories from civic tech

Speaker: Irina Bolychevsky

Irina is passionate about products and using technology to make things better. She spent many years working on open data at Open Knowledge as one of the directors and ckan product owner, at web startups, and most recently as a data consultant for W3C, the Open Data Institute and the UK, Dubai and UAE governments. She co-founded redecentralize.org—a project to promote and bring together people working on and interested in decentralised digital technologies.

Talk 3: Other ways of funding open source

Speaker: @BenJam

@BenJam has been involved with just about every way of funding open source projects through Tidelift, Libraries.io and Dependency CI. He is co-founder and part time designer of the game Attack the Pack.

We anticipate this evening may be oversubscribed, so please book promptly. We shall be videoing the talks for later posting on YouTube for those who are unable to make it.

Agenda:
18:00 - Registration, including tea, coffee, and networking
18:30 - The event starts
20:00 - The event ends

Will catering be provided?
We are providing refreshments, though no food.

About the organiser:
BCS Open Source SG are organising this event; to find out more about the group at http://ossg.bcs.org/.

For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.

Each talk will last 30 minutes and include plenty of time for questions. I look forward to seeing you there.

Talk 1: Thinking differently: new approaches to funding the development of open source conservation technologies

Speaker: Alasdair Davies

An active conservationist and technologist all his working life, Alasdair Davies is combining his two passions with a third - openness

- - to bring affordable, customizable technology to the field through the Arribada Initiative. As a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, he is designing, developing and producing open source conservation technologies in partnership with leading wildlife charities such as WWF and the Zoological Society of London, employing open approaches and licences to drive down costs by introducing new community-based funding models.

Talk 2: Funding open - tactics and stories from civic tech

Speaker: Irina Bolychevsky

Irina is passionate about products and using technology to make things better. She spent many years working on open data at Open Knowledge as one of the directors and ckan product owner, at web startups, and most recently as a data consultant for W3C, the Open Data Institute and the UK, Dubai and UAE governments. She co-founded redecentralize.org—a project to promote and bring together people working on and interested in decentralised digital technologies.

Talk 3: Other ways of funding open source

Speaker: @BenJam

@BenJam has been involved with just about every way of funding open source projects through Tidelift, Libraries.io and Dependency CI. He is co-founder and part time designer of the game Attack the Pack.

We anticipate this evening may be oversubscribed, so please book promptly. We shall be videoing the talks for later posting on YouTube for those who are unable to make it.