Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.4 Open Source Foundations

  • Does the incorporation type matter to open source foundations? 2/4

    Does the incorporation type matter to open source foundations? 2/4

    tl;dr: It doesn’t really matter how a foundation incorporates; what matters is the actual governance. A typical response to the creation of new open source foundations is to decry them as “vanity foundations”. In a few instances, that may be true, but I think as a generalization it is not correct. Usually, companies think first…

  • The Apache Software Foundation (@TheASF) is missing out 1/4

    The Apache Software Foundation (@TheASF) is missing out 1/4

    tl;dr: The ASF is not serving the needs of companies from outside the software industry well. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the original gold standard of open source foundations. Yet its project and governance model takes a one-size-fits-all approach that is holding beginners to such high standards that they may never get started with…

  • Mike Milinkovich on open source consortia @mmilinkov

    Mike Milinkovich on open source consortia @mmilinkov

    Mike Milinkovich’s talk at OSS 2015 on “How the Eclipse Community Works” Trends What Eclipse does Principles and operations Corporate shenanigans Open source capture

  • 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…