Category: 1.4 Open Source Foundations
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User-led open source consortia, defined
User-led open source consortia expanded the reach of open source beyond the IT industry. Given this impact, it is important to get the definition right. This is my third attempt. I think this is it. All open source developed by a broad and diverse community is community open source, as opposed to commercial open source,…
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Open source software engineering the Eclipse way (Wayne Beaton, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 15th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Open Source Software Engineering the Eclipse Way Keywords – Authors Wayne Beaton, The Eclipse Foundation Publication Computer vol. 54, no. 6 (June 2021), pp. 59-63 Abstract: This article explains how open source software development works…
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Open source community governance the Apache Way (Drost-Fromm & Tompkins, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 14th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Open Source Community Governance the Apache Way Keywords Open Source Software, Distributed Computing, Documentation Authors Isabel Drost-Fromm, Apache Software Foundation; Rob Tompkins, Apache Software Foundation Publication Computer vol. 54, no. 4 (April 2021), pp. 70-75…
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Interpreting the purpose of the Open Usage Commons foundation
Yesterday, the Open Usage Commons (OUC) foundation announced itself. It is a non-profit which wants to ensure free and fair trademark use of the open source projects under its guidance. My Twitter feed was quick to denounce the OUC as a vanity foundation. It certainly is not. A vanity foundation serves to aggrandize its creators,…
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Three reasons why companies are creating their own open source consortium
Most open source these days, certainly the most widely used open source, is developed by companies. Open source, by definition, is competitively non-differentiating, so companies can join forces in its development. To so do peacefully, however, they need good governance that preempts conflicts among the participating companies. Such governance is usually provided under the auspices…
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The ecosystem of openKONSEQUENZ, a user-led open source foundation (video)
Today, Nikolay Harutyunyan presented some of our work on openKONSEQUENZ, a user-led open source consortium that develops software for local energy distributors. Below, please watch the talk (local copy); the talk is based on the same-name research paper.