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The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census Report

Jeff Waugh (Waugh Partners), Pia Waugh (Waugh Partners) Moderated by: Jeff Waugh
1:45pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
People
 Location: D133

What have they put in the water Down Under? Australia punches far above its weight in the open source community, producing some of its most prolific and innovative developers from one of the largest pools of contributors per-capita… Find out why Aussies rock open source from the world’s first nation-wide industry and community survey.

In 2007, Waugh Partners launched the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census, the world’s first national research project to study open source companies and contributors, understand the strength of open source in Australia, the economic potential for the broader Australian ICT industry, our skills capacity, and the symbiotic relationship between the open source industry and community around it.

While focused on the Australian market, the findings provide useful insights for other open source advocates, industry, and community groups—which will be a major focus of this presentation at OSCON.

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Pia Waugh

Waugh Partners

Pia Waugh is a consultant at Waugh Partners in Sydney, Australia. She had worked as a Research Coordinator for the Australian Service for Knowledge on Open Source Software (ASK-OSS), the Open Source strategist for a large systems integrator and still works to develop the Australian FOSS industry and improve Government policies towards FOSS. She has been working with Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) such as Linux for about 9 years. She has seen FOSS deliver not only economic benefits to countries and business all around the world, but significant social and environmental benefits to communities everywhere.

Pia is a community leader both in Australia and internationally as Vice President of Linux Australia and President of Software Freedom International. She was also on the linux.conf.au 2007 organising team. She has spoken at Software Livre in Brazil, FOSS events in China, the Open Source World Conferences in Spain, the World Summit of Information Society (United Nations) in Switzerland, linux.conf.au in New Zealand and linux.conf.au, education au, Making Links, various TechGirls events and many more in Australia! She is passionate about improving the world by getting great technologies to people who need them, and creating a well-connected global society where anyone can play and succeed.

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