SocialSource Organising Group
This initiative is being organised by a group of volunteers involved with the Voluntary & Community Sector (VCS) both as freelancers, and through working for variety of organisations such as Amnesty International, Contact a Family, and Shelter.
Following informal discussions, and the involvement by several of the group in the
Social Software initiative since 2002, it was felt that the time was right to organise an event demonstrating some Open Source projects, and gathering together interested stakeholders, which resulted in the
event that took place on 15 September 2004.
Below you'll find brief profiles of the organising group. Want to get in touch? Send us a mail via
ContactUs
If you're looking for profiles and information relating to those who attended either of the events held in London, please look at either the
Sept 2004 Event Documentation or the
Nov 2005 Event Documentation
Adrian De Luca
Adrian has a research background and spends his week working as Fundraising Research Manager at Shelter. Previously, he has been worked as a research consultant for a number of organisations at a local level looking at ICT issues for VCS organisations.
Dan McQuillan
Dr. Dan McQuillan is Web Manager at Amnesty International. He was previously a senior consultant in Lasa's Information Systems Team, specialising in the innovative application of technology to the needs of the non-profit sector. He set up the Multikulti project, a pioneering multilingual website which delivers advice information in 12 languages, in collaboration with Bengali, Farsi & Urdu open source projects. Outside of work, Dan was a co-founder of the volunteer run 'Social Software' project which aims to bring the benefits of open source software to the voluntary & community sector.
Ryan Cartwright
Ryan Cartwright is IT Manager at
Contact a Family where they have been
using OSS at various levels since 1999. Although initially reluctant to call himself an expert, Ryan has realised that he has acquired experience in using OSS in a charity that is worth sharing.
Contact a Family's particular success stories are in implementing an OSS alternative to MS Exchange and implementing a Web based secure database at a fraction of the proposed budget - when proprietary solutions came in at twice the same budget! Ryan is keen to demonstrate to other charities that OSS saves you both money and hair loss. Ryan also contributes on a personal level to the OSS community with
software and
documentation.
Ryan has given three talks at the two
SocialSource? events:
Peter Chauncy
Busy eActivist and provider of connectivity for SocialSource... ;-)
