![]() He is a lapsed theologian with a PhD in theology from Durham University. All the projects in which Michael has been involved have engaged with open source software whether in development or deployment (some more successfully than others). He has been involved in a wide range of JISC projects and services especially relating to virtual research environments humanities computing and access management. Whilst directing OSS Watch Michael Fraser was Coordinator of the Research Technologies Service at Oxford University Computing Services and he was also Director of Intute Arts and Humanities and an Associate Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre. Michael Fraser, Service Director (2007-2008) He has interests in XML XSL Java C# and Web Services and has produced books on Modula-2 and Java. Prior to this he was a lecturer in Computer Science. There he looked after Apache web servers Apache tomcat MySQL and OpenLDAP servers. Prior to moving to Oxford he was a support person in the IT Service at the University of Durham. OSS Watch continues to use the university newsfeed system that Barry developed for Oxford. In 2006 he managed the much larger national survey on the use of open source software in higher and further education OSS Watch Survey 2006. Barry conducted a small survey on the use of Linux at the University of Oxford in 2005. He also had principal responsibility for OSS Watch XSLT stylesheets for the transformation of our XML documents into html pdf and more. He was instrumental in supporting the introduction of OSS Watch’s MoinMoin wiki. Barry Cornelius, Development Officerīarry moved to Oxford University Computing Services in March 2005 where his time was divided evenly between OSS Watch and the computing services’ Information Services team. Other interests include poetry photography wikis and blogging. Currently he releases a template for LaTeX (TempLaTeX) and is involved in the use of subversion and GNU/Linux in his lab. He graduated in Telecommunication Engineering in Madrid (Spain) and has been an enthusiastic user of open source software for the last 5 years. The topic of his dissertation is a study of contractility of the heart using contrast dobutamine stress echocargiography. Ramón Casero Cañas, Development Officer (2006-2008)Īpart from working for OSS Watch Ramón is reading for a DPhil in Medical Image Processing at Oxford. ![]() He is proud to be considered an open source bigot XML maniac and digital text bore. His track record includes work on the development of XML the TEI the BNC and many other acronyms. Whilst directing OSS Watch Lou was also Assistant Director at Oxford University Computing Services with responsibility for a range of information and support services. Lou has worked at the intersection of information technology and academic research in the humanities since the 1980s. Lou Burnard, Service Director (2008-2010) She currently works as Information Manager for IT Services. She managed OSS Watch’s content from 2005-2012 commissioning and editing the content that you see on the OSS Watch website and producing OSS Watch’s monthly newsletter. Somewhat unusually for a sysadmin she likes to put pen to paper and in recent years she has moved in a content focussed direction. A techie at heart she has many years of hands on experience in Unix systems administration and network infrastructure support. Elena Blanco, Information Manager (2005-2012)Įlena has been involved in many different aspects of academic computing provision since 1991. He has also published and researched on open educational resources. Stuart led the procurement of Oxford’s open source VLE solution - first Bodington and now Sakai. In 2008 he was made Oxford’s Reader in E-learning and Digital Libraries and received a University Teaching Award. He is a member of several senior University ICT committees has led major research projects in the fields of digitisation humanities computing and e-learning and is also a lecturer and researcher at Oxford’s English Faculty. Stuart is currently Deputy CIO of IT Services but formerly Head of the University’s Learning Technologies Group which he set up in 2001. But we still think of them as part of the OSS Watch team! Stuart Lee, Service Director (2010-2013) We appreciate everything they did for OSS Watch and wish them all the best. Inevitably staff both join OSS Watch and eventually move on to further endeavours.
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