Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

  • Talk slides: Paid vs. volunteer work in open source paper

    Talk slides: Paid vs. volunteer work in open source paper

    Our HICSS-47 paper “paid vs. volunteer work in open source projects” paper was a best paper nominee. Please find included the slides for the talk.

  • Open Source Day in Nuremberg

    Open Source Day in Nuremberg

    The Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) will hold its annual Open Source Day in Nuremberg this year, on 2013-11-20. For more information, please see the flyer. I am a member of the OSBA (the former Linux Solutions Group). I am also a member of the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF), which is headquartered in Nuremberg.…

  • Editorial to special journal issue: The unstoppable rise of open source

    Editorial to special journal issue: The unstoppable rise of open source

    (This is the editorial I wrote for the it – Information Technology, vol. 55, no. 5, journal issue, a special issue on open source that I edited.) The unstoppable rise of open source Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University (of Erlangen-Nürnberg) Open source software is software that is available for everyone to use for free, to adapt…

  • Special journal issue: The unstoppable rise of open source

    Special journal issue: The unstoppable rise of open source

    Oldenbourg Verlag just published a special issue on open source that I edited. Titled “the unstoppable rise of open source” it provides a five-article overview of open source past, present, and future. Please read my introduction to “the unstoppable rise of open source” and any of the papers provided in the special issue—naturally, I ensured…

  • Paid vs. volunteer work in open source [HICSS 2014]

    Paid vs. volunteer work in open source [HICSS 2014]

    Abstract: Many open source projects have long become commercial. This paper shows just how much of open source software development is paid work and how much has remained volunteer work. Using a conservative approach, we find that about 50% of all open source software development has been paid work for many years now and that…

  • Learning Across Open Collaboration Perspectives

    Learning Across Open Collaboration Perspectives

    I’m at WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 and happy to notice that some of the hoped-for magic is happening: A cross-polination of insights and ideas across the different disciplinary perspectives on open collaboration. Specifically, I found that open source has developed insights of value to open access, open data, Wikipedia, etc. that have arrived only now…