Category: 1. Software Industry
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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…
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Talk slides: Paid vs. volunteer work in open source paper
Our HICSS-47 paper “paid vs. volunteer work in open source projects” paper was a best paper nominee. Please find included the slides for the talk.
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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…
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Open Source Day in Nuremberg
The Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) will hold its annual Open Source Day in Nuremberg this year, on 2013-11-20. For more information, please see the flyer. I am a member of the OSBA (the former Linux Solutions Group). I am also a member of the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF), which is headquartered in Nuremberg.…
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Editorial to special journal issue: The unstoppable rise of open source
(This is the editorial I wrote for the it – Information Technology, vol. 55, no. 5, journal issue, a special issue on open source that I edited.) The unstoppable rise of open source Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University (of Erlangen-Nürnberg) Open source software is software that is available for everyone to use for free, to adapt…
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Special journal issue: The unstoppable rise of open source
Oldenbourg Verlag just published a special issue on open source that I edited. Titled “the unstoppable rise of open source” it provides a five-article overview of open source past, present, and future. Please read my introduction to “the unstoppable rise of open source” and any of the papers provided in the special issue—naturally, I ensured…