BBC Open Source Projects
BBC Open Source Projects is a lists of projects developed by the BBC where the source code has been released as open source. The website does not fully show the many open source projects to which the BBC has been part of, but only those that the BBC has started and managed itself. For the BBC, open source software development is like an extension of the Public Service remit. Releasing open source software aids audience in get additional value from the work they have supported and also in acquiring tools for free which they could not get in any other way. It also lets people outside the BBC to extend projects in ways that may be used in the BBC in the future.
10 Aug 2010 editor