Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.4 Open Source Foundations

  • Open source for the energy sector (in German) [ew Magazine]

    Open source for the energy sector (in German) [ew Magazine]

    A progress report towards an open source foundation for the energy sector (in German) that I initiated and am currently guiding. The article dates back to February already, but I got a hold of it only now. Konsortiale Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung im Energiesektor Christof Heinritz, Peter Herdt, Stephan Janeck, Gerhardt Regenbogen, Dirk Riehle, Frank Rose, Michael Roth,…

  • The business of open source user foundations (consortia)

    The business of open source user foundations (consortia)

    I held a talk on open source user foundations today, at the OpenUp Camp in Nuremberg. The slides are available as a PDF or on slideshare, embedded below: A small anecdote on the side In preparation of the talk, I looked for academic publications on the Kuali Foundation. I found only one, but I couldn’t…

  • Open-Up Camp in Nuremberg February 14-16, 2014 (in German)

    Open-Up Camp in Nuremberg February 14-16, 2014 (in German)

    On Feb 14-16, 2014, the OpenUp Camp about all things open (practitioner) will take place in Nuremberg. Feb 14 is the “business day” and it will have a focus in open source user foundations, to which I’ll make a contribution: Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle, FAU, berichtet über aktuelle Forschung zum Thema Open-Source-Anwenderkonsortien. Er geht hierbei…

  • A model of open source developer foundations [OSS 2012]

    A model of open source developer foundations [OSS 2012]

    Abstract: Many community open source projects are of high economic relevance. As these projects mature, their leaders face a choice of continuing the project as is, making the project join an existing foundation, or creating their own foundation for the project. This article presents a model of open source developer foundations that project leaders can…

  • New Talk: How and Why IT User Companies Sponsor Open Source

    New Talk: How and Why IT User Companies Sponsor Open Source

    New talk! For German, see below. Other stock talks here. If you are interested in this talk, feel free to contact me. Topics Open source, IT user company, open source foundation, sponsored open source Audience CIO, CFO, product manager, project manager Format 45min talk, 60min talk Level Intermediate How and Why IT User Companies Sponsor…

  • Community Open Source as the Raw Material of Computing Utility Providers

    It’s April 2nd, so the Apache Software Foundation’s 2010 April Fools’ joke is over. Here is why I liked it a lot. It represents a hypothetical: What if the ASF and its projects could be bought? Or, if not bought, then put under control or strong influence of corporate interests like in traditional open source…