Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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![How developers acquire FLOSS skills [OSS 2015]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10410-berlin-building-evening-sun-300x150.jpg)
How developers acquire FLOSS skills [OSS 2015]
Abstract: With the increasing prominence of open collaboration as found in free/libre/open source software projects and other joint production communities, potential participants need to acquire skills. How these skills are learned has received little research attention. This article presents a large-scale survey (5,309 valid responses) in which users and developers of the beta release of…
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Vortrag zu Open-Source-Geschäftsmodellen auf dem 10ten OSE Symposium, München, 2015-01-23
Ich werde am 23.01.15 um 16:00 Uhr auf dem 10ten OSE Symposium im Haus der Bayrischen Wirtschaft in München einen Vortrag zu Open-Source-Geschäftsmodellen halten (in Deutsch) und danach an einer die Tagung abschliessenden Diskussionsrunde teilnehmen. Weitere Teilnehmer der Diskussionsrunde sind Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (ehemalige Bundesjustizministerin) und Jimmy Schulz (ehemaliges MdB). Hier die Rahmendaten: Es handelt sich…
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Upcoming keynote: Sustainable open source
I’ll be keynoting the 16th KKIO Software Engineering Conference on Sept 22, 2014, in Posnan, Poland. Here is the abstract. See you at the conference! Abstract MySQL was sold for one billion US-dollar. Red Hat is worth a multiple of that. The Eclipse Foundation has pushed many software tool vendors out of business. How come…
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Open source career 2014 talk slides, photos, and video
The talk “The Open Source Software Developer Career and its Benefits”, which I gave at the 2014 Entwicklertag in Karlsruhe earlier this year, is now fully documented. You can take a look at the original paper, talk slides, event photos, and finally (woohoo!) a quality video recording courtesy of Andrena, the organizers of the Entwicklertag.…
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IT standards and open source (repeat)
An old debate has recently been rearing its ugly head: the value of standards in IT and the role of open source. In my view, it is really very simple. There are two types of standards, and they determine the role that open source can play. Examples of type 2 standards are the file formats…
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![Erfolgsmethoden der Open-Source-Governance und -Compliance (Best Practices of Open-Source-Governance and -Compliance) [Technical Report]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10433-hawaii-west-maui-winding-road-300x150.jpg)
Erfolgsmethoden der Open-Source-Governance und -Compliance (Best Practices of Open-Source-Governance and -Compliance) [Technical Report]
Abstract Open-Source-Software ist weit verbreitet und wird nicht nur als alleinstehende Anwendungen eingesetzt, sondern auch als Komponenten in Produkten. Entsprechend wichtig ist es für Unternehmen, die Open-Source-Komponenten verwenden, mittels Open-Source-Governance und -Compliance sicherzustellen, dass die dem Einsatz von Open Source eigenen Risiken rechtzeitig und korrekt adressiert werden. Aufbauend auf früherer Arbeit zu den Risiken der…