OSS Watch also organises and attends conferences and workshops relating to free and open source software, both within and outside the academic sector.
The organisation also produces a wide range of high quality and regularly reviewed briefing notes on topics relating to open source use, development and adoption.
In addition to consultations and the production of briefing materials, OSS Watch organise a number of education and training events each year.
[9] As with their publications, OSS Watch are able to use their non-advocacy status to attract speakers from all areas of the computing sphere in order to create well informed events.
[11] In June 2011 Ross left to form a spin-out company (and later joined Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc in 2013) and was replaced as OSS Watch manager by Sander van der Waal.
[12] In September 2012, Scott Wilson of CETIS[13] and the Apache Wookie[14] project joined OSS Watch replacing Sander as Service Manager.