Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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Open source usability and user experience (Mikko Rajanen, IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 23nd article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Open Source Usability and User Experience Keywords — Authors Mikko Rajanen, University of Oulu Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 2 (February 2023), pp. 106-110 Abstract: This article highlights the challenges of user-centered and usability processes…
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Women in open source: We need to talk about it (Trinkenreich et al., IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 22nd article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Women in Open Source: We Need to Talk About It Keywords — Authors Bianca Trinkenreich, Marco Aurelio Gerosa, and Igor Steinmacher (Northern Arizona University) Publication Computer vol. 55, no. 12 (December 2022), pp. 145-149 Abstract:…
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Open source legal debt
Open source legal debt is unwanted open-source code in your products and projects. Code may be unwanted, if it does not fit your (a company’s) business model. An example is code that has been copied from StackOverflow into your code base. That’s because code from StackOverflow has a copyleft license, which means that as you…
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Two issue break of IEEE Computer Column Open Source Expanded
Thanks to this editor’s inability to wield their whip effectively, the IEEE Computer magazine’s open source column is taking a two issue break: There wasn’t an August 2022 article and there won’t be an October 2022 article in IEEE Computer magazine. We will resume our regular bi-monthly schedule in December 2022. Until then you may…
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The Four Opens: Open Source Beyond the Code (Ildikó Vancsa, IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 21th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title The Four Opens: Open Source Beyond the Code Keywords — Authors Ildikó Vancsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation Publication Computer vol. 55, no. 6 (June 2022), pp. 81-84 Abstract: This article describes a set of guiding principles…
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Call for article proposals for Open Source Expanded column in IEEE Computer Magazine
Readers of this blog may have noticed that I manage a regular (bi-monthly) column on open source for the IEEE Computer magazine (about 60K print subscribers and many more online readers). Article topics are broadly about open source. I’m calling for proposals for new articles in the series. You can read past articles on this…