Waugh Partners

Waugh Partners is pleased to announce that the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report 2008 is now published!

The report is available on our website as a freely downloadable PDF, and is redistributable under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivatives license. Soon, a printed edition of the report will be sent to every survey participant who provided us with their postal address, and will also be available to purchase individually or in special bulk orders.

Thank you to our sponsors NICTA, IBM and Fujitsu, and our supporters OSIA, Linux Australia and the NSW Department of State and Regional Development.

Download the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report 2008 now!

Australians working with open source software are urged to participate in an online census launched this week to discover the capabilities of the local industry.

Organiser Jeff Waugh told ZDNet Australia that the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census 2007 aims to gain a full understanding of the Australian open source industry -- "including which companies are selling, supporting or servicing open source solutions in Australia, which Australian citizens are contributing to the open source movement, even which ex-pats are working on open source projects overseas."

Australia's $21 billion ICT trade deficit could be dramatically reduced if the local industry played to its strengths and exported services using open source software, according to industry analyst Jeff Waugh.