How can you participate?

• Understanding of licence terms and how they shape different access regimes

• Understanding of different models

• Understanding of risks

• Due diligence process (eg presence of community of interest)

• Develop policies for dealing with acquisitions

• Anticipate change

• Consider auditing use, acquisition, contribution

• Leverage benefits now (eg threat of migration can be used to discipline existing lock in provider)

• Pressure vendors (does your product use open formats? Does it run on open platform Z? Is it open source?)

• Get some advice on your legal position