Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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Open Source: A New Developer Career
Update, 2010-03-19: Linux Magazin made the talk video available. Their data shows that more than 10,000 people watched it live! I noticed an increasing interest into a general-interest talk of mine on how open source creates a new software developer career. This is not a rara (pep) talk but rather (I hope) an economically rational…
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Next Three Public Open Source Talks
Next three public talks on open source that I’ll be giving in Germany: Nuremberg, 25.02.10 – Talend Business Lunch, talk topic: Sustainability of Commercial Open Source Hannover, 02.03.10 – CeBIT Open Source Forum keynote: Open Source Software Developer Careers Erlangen, 30.04.10 – Tag der Informatik, Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg: Open Source and the Software End-Game
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Research Positions for CCC’s 2010 Future of Open Source Research Workshop
I will be participating in the Computing Community Consortium’s workshop on the future of open source research at UC Irvine next month. The organizers asked participants to provide a short opinion on three research areas they feel warrant further research. I chose the following three general topics: Quantitative Analyses of Actual Programmer Behavior Improved Open…
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Call for Open Source Dated Dec 12, 1968
Ike Nassi, an Executive Vice President and my former manager at SAP, writes in an email: By accident, while reviewing a very old CACM paper “Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations” by Dennis and Van Horn from March 1966 (!) reprinted in the CACM 25th Anniversary issue (Volume 26, Issue 1 (Jan. 1983) Special 25th Anniversary…
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2010 Open Source Research Workshops Galore!
It is no big news that open source research has been growing strongly in recent years. However, the recent string of conference and workshop announcements is just amazing. Here is a short run-down of what reached me the last two weeks: 10.-12.02.2010: Workshop on the Future of Research on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) 08.05.2010: 2010…
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Open Source Vendor Lock-in
Yesterday, SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka called for a more open approach to the Java standardization process (JCP), asking SUN to stop ruling it with a heavy hand. Not surprisingly, he got some pushback using the argument that SAP isn’t one to talk about being more open, given its slow involvement with open source. I don’t…