Mark Taylor and Sirius

This page will hold information about Mark Taylor and his talk on the alternatives in looking for OSS support. Sirius' homepage is at http://www.siriusit.co.uk/

Profile

Mark Taylor is a Lead Consultant with Sirius. An early and continuing contributor to a wide spectrum of Open Source development projects, Mark is actively working on wide-scale deployments of Open Source technologies in a variety of business environments.

Mark is also the founder of the Open Source Consortium in the UK. A consortium of over 60 of the countries leading Open Source businesses whos purpose is to bring Open Source technologies to the UK Government and Public Sector

Notes Relating to talk

Possible methods of support:

• DIY -- Google and O'Reilly books

• "Amateur" -- e.g. OS enthusiasts / advocates, Linux User Groups, Online, Mailing lists (research first -- check FAQ's before posting to Mailing lists) - will usually get an answer to your problem / issue pretty quickly and for free!

• "Professional" -- two types:

The OSC will soon be launching a directory of established OSS support providers (http://preview.opensourceconsortium.org) will contain over 60 UK based OS consultancy and training companies.

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