Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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The Evolution of the Source Forge Home Page
I was revising my talk on “Inner Source” when it occurred to me that it might be fun to review the changes to the sf.net (Sourceforge) homepage. Please find my collection of screenshots below. I only started saving them in 2007 so pointers to more and older screenshots are welcome! (In particular if they come…
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Upcoming Talk: The Open Source Volunteering Process
Title The Open Source Volunteering Process Abstract Open source projects critically depend on bringing new project members on board speedily and effectively. In this talk, I’ll describe the open source volunteering and on-boarding process. I’ll discuss the roles people play and the practices they follow, and I’ll illustrate how this process works by showing the…
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The Open Source Big Bang
Open source is not only software, but also an approach to software development. The public nature of open source projects lets us show how open source software development scales to the largest project sizes. The following figure illustrates the scalability of open source software development. I call it the big bang of open source. The…
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The Open Source Innovation and Commoditization Frontier
Following up on Matt Aslett’s excellent post about the growth of permissive licenses and a short discussion about it on my research group’s blog, I wanted to suggest here a thought about the ratio of new vendor-owned vs. community-owned open source projects. I’m ignoring existing projects because of their path dependence (read: only today do…
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More Upcoming Talks: Open Source Research
I’ll be presenting the Open Source Research talk repeatedly over the next few months. The next three instances are in China, specifically: After that it’s back to Germany.
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Upcoming Talk, Tsinghua University: Open Source Research
报告题目 Open Source Research 报告人 Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle, University of Erlangen, Germany 时间 2011年03月17日（周一） 10:00am-noon 地点 FIT大楼 4-302 Abstract: Open source is not just software but also represents a new approach to software development. This type of software development is different from traditional plan-driven and agile methods and scales up to the largest project…