Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1. Software Industry

  • Open World Forum State of Open Source

    Open World Forum State of Open Source

    The Open World Forum 2010 is coming up next week. Please meet me there and discuss with me on their respective panels. See you in Paris, Sept 30-Oct 1!

  • MediaWiki and Commercial Open Source Innovation

    MediaWiki and Commercial Open Source Innovation

    You may be surprised to hear that the dominant public Internet wiki engine, MediaWiki, only plays a minor role in the enterprise. Within the corporate firewalls, TWiki, Confluence, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, and others are running the show. Why is that? It is certainly not the lack of commercial customer interest in MediaWiki, which everyone already knows…

  • Upcoming Talk (in German) July 2nd, 2010: Open Source: Was Es Ist, Wie Es Funktioniert, Warum Es Nachhaltig Ist

    Upcoming Talk (in German) July 2nd, 2010: Open Source: Was Es Ist, Wie Es Funktioniert, Warum Es Nachhaltig Ist

    Speaker: Dirk Riehle Abstract: Open Source bezeichnet nicht nur eine Kategorie von Software, sondern auch einen Ansatz der Softwareentwicklung, welcher sich von plan-getriebenen und agilen Methoden der Softwareentwicklung unterscheidet. Zunehmend betrachtet die Softwareindustrie zudem Open Source als Geschäftsmodell. Dieser Vortrag erläutert an zum Teil überraschenden Beispielen, wie die Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung funktioniert und wie sie sich von…

  • Linux-Tag Keynote Slides: A New Developer Career

    Linux-Tag Keynote Slides: A New Developer Career

    I just finished my Linux-Tag 2010 keynote and so I’m providing the talk slides here under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. First title and abstract: Title: Open Source: A New Developer Career Abstract: Open source creates a new career ladder for software developers, orthogonal to the traditional career in software firms. Advancing on this…

  • Public Open Source Talks in June and July 2010

    Public Open Source Talks in June and July 2010

    These are the currently scheduled public open source talks that I’ll be presenting in June and July 2010:

  • Revised 2010 Stock Open Source Talks

    Revised 2010 Stock Open Source Talks

    I revised my stock open source talk descriptions. These talks will keep changing, naturally. What’s current you can find at presentations/current-talks. For what’s current right now, see below. These talks come in English or German, and as talks or (partially) as tutorials. 1. What Closed Source Development Can Learn From Open Source Open source is…