Presentation delivered at the British Computer Society event 'Public Funds in the UK: Open Source for Document and Content Management?' in January 2010. The event aimed to bring together a set of experts from across the technology sector and stimulate discussion on how the public sector use of technology may be improved following recent criticism in the media. http://ossg.bcs.org/2009/09/20/public-funds-in-the-uk-open-source-for-document-and-content-management-london-070110/

1. Public Funds in the UK: Open Source for Document and Content Management? Will Abson, Alfresco Software Ltd.

3. First Release Candidate on 12 th July

4. First 1.x release on 31 st October

5. Use of Open Source methodology was key

7. Provides Document Management, Records Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration and more

8. Community and Enterprise Editions

9. Active communities world-wide

10. Built on Open Source components – Spring, Lucene, Hibernate, OpenOffice.org, etc.

12. Gives individuals and organisations the right to access this information from any public authority

13. Similar legislation implemented in over 85 countries world-wide

14. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2010/01/wills_defends_queen.html

17. Elimination of licensing and CALs

27. Historical preference of proprietary solutions

29. “ICT Spend in the European Public Sector”, 2005

31. Utilise Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, blogs, social networks

33. http://www.slideshare.net/timoreilly/gov2-senate

35. MPs Expenses

36. data.gov, data.gov.uk, London Data Store

38. Open Source and Open Standards as key enablers

39. Where are we now? All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) http://www.axicom.com/blog/?p=616