The communal project, “analyzing the analysts guide - open source analysis edition”, starts today!
This is an informal, community effort to develop a guide to working with industry analyst firms using open source licensing / analysis as part of their business model. The project was proposed last month by James McGovern at Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership.
This is a project of peers; no one is in charge. I simply volunteered to set up a wiki and tap some analysts on the shoulder. Subject matter experts are welcome to participate. This includes industry analysts, professionals who are experienced clients of industry analysts, and related subject matter experts.
I don’t have email addresses for everyone James mentioned in his original post. So if you did not get a late-night email inviting you to join, please contact anyone already involved to join. (You can put a fork in my head next time you see me.) Check your spam filter, too — I think the email was sent from the wiki, not from me.
It’s at wikispaces and it’s called the “osaa” wikispace.
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January 4th, 2007 at 11:45 am
[…] James McGovern put the sand in the pearl. Barbara French at Tekrati started to layer gloss upon it (that means add content in English). Then we all jumped in (MWD, Freeform, RedMonk, Entiva and so on). I am hoping the wiki will provide some value. […]
June 5th, 2007 at 4:24 am
[…] about this earlier this year (along with James McGovern and Barbara at Tekrati) when they highlighted the open source analysis analysts (OSAA) wiki. I will be joining this debate […]
April 30th, 2008 at 4:52 am
[…] his post he reported some issues to be addressed, Barbara French from Tekrati also joined the informal community to develop a guide to working with industry analyst firms using open source […]