Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

Why on earth?! Why product vendors invest in open-source software (upcoming talk, in German)

I give industry talks about every other week and stopped advertising them long ago. This one, however, may be of broad interest. I will talk about the economics of strategically creating and leading open source projects at the June 20th, 2017, Open Source Forum of Bitkom in Berlin. Title and abstract below, event details to…

2017-02-16
Open source collaboration: The other open source innovation (in German)

Below, please find a blog post in preparation of the Bitkom OSS Forum in July 2016. Open-Source-Software ist zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil von Softwareprodukten geworden. Es gibt praktisch keine Software mehr, die nicht auch auf Open Source aufbaut. Unternehmen, welche Open-Source-Software in ihren Produkten verwenden, machen sich meist Sorgen um die rechtlichen Konsequenzen, welche Open-Source-Lizenzen…

2016-05-06
Current open source publications of general interest

Preparing for the relaunch of my course on free/libre, and open source software, I took stock of the general-interest papers I wrote about open source. From this list, I’m omitting (overly) academic papers; all of these papers should be broadly understandable. Introduction to open source Open source and intellectual property Open source project communities Open…

2016-01-28
The five stages of open source volunteering [Book Chapter]

Abstract: Today’s software systems build on open source software. Thus, we need to understand how to successfully create, nurture, and mature the software development communities of these open source projects. In this article, we review and discuss best practices of the open source volunteering and recruitment process that successful project leaders are using to lead…

2015-07-24
Best quotes for promoting open source developer career article

IEEE Computer asked me about some quotes for promoting my recent article on developer careers, to be used on their social media channels. Naturally, I had a field day. A brainstorm ensued. Here are some of the better ones I suggested to them: The changing career of programmers: Open source to help or hurt? http://wp.me/Pe4V6-WV…

2015-05-20
How open source is changing the software developer’s career [Computer Magazine]

Abstract: Software developers with open source project experience acquire verifiable technical expertise, peer-certified competencies, and positional power—advantages that align with companies’ need to obtain a competitive advantage. Read more… Keywords: Software developer career, software labor economics, high-tech labor market, open source, inner source Reference: Dirk Riehle. “How Open Source is Changing the Software Developer’s Career.”…

2015-05-14