Last month, Oregon State University Open Source Lab Operations Manager, Jeff Sheltren, headed to Chicago for Flourish! Open Source Conference, put on by the University of Illinois, Chicago. There was a great crowd at Flourish with a number of excellent speakers and demonstration/learning sessions going on throughout the two day conference.

Jeff spoke about the OSUOSL including the history, current projects, and some of the cool open source projects hosted at the lab. There was a lot of interest in the audience about forming open source groups at other universities and potential collaboration with the OSUOSL.

Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/9202804@N06/3409624367/ used with permission.

Flourish plans to make video of Jeff’s talk (and all of the other speakers!) available on their website in the near future. In the meantime, you can find Jeff’s presentation on the OSUOSL here (odp format[expired]; pdf format[expired]). The presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/