Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1. Software Industry

  • Upcoming talk: The open-source software developer career and its benefits

    Upcoming talk: The open-source software developer career and its benefits

    I’ll be talking about the benefits of being an open source software developer tomorrow, at the Karlsruher Entwicklertage (Developer Days). I’ll be on at 10:45am. For those who’ll miss the talk, I just made the underlying paper on the benefits of the open source developer career available on this site. Enjoy!

  • This curious word 3D printing

    This curious word 3D printing

    When I first heard about 3D printing, I thought it was a weird choice of words. It is a good word, because it tells a story familiar to people living today, but why not call it home manufacturing or on-site factories, or the like? I’m not sufficiently knowledgable about the history of technology, but is…

  • The five stages of open source volunteering [Technical Report]

    The five stages of open source volunteering [Technical Report]

    This technical report was superseded by a republication by Springer Verlag. Please cite and use the later publication. Abstract: Today’s software systems build on open source software. Thus, we need to understand how to successfully create, nurture, and mature the software development communities of these open source projects. In this report, we review and discuss…

  • Upcoming public talks on open source

    Upcoming public talks on open source

    Here are three upcoming talks on open source for the next six months in 2014: I wish I was more consistent in announcing public talks…

  • 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…

  • Talk slides: Paid vs. volunteer work in open source paper

    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.