Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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The Perils of Going from Community to Commercial Open Source
The growth and corporate adoption of many community open source projects is hindered by the lack of commercial support. At the same time, well working community open source is a temptation for startups to make a buck by turning the community project into commercial open source. We can currently observe the unraveling of such a…
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Capobianco’s OSS 2008 Keynote
Fabrizio Capobianco made the slides from his OSS 2008 keynote available. This is the same conference where we reported about the total (exponential) growth of open source. Unfortunately I had to leave right after our talk for the Wiki Symposium so I didn’t catch him nor could I listen to his talk. His slides, however,…
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PLoP Proceedings now in ACM Digital Library
Thanks to the efforts of Joe Yoder and Ralph Johnson, the proceedings of the 2006 conference on Pattern Languages of Programming have been archived in the ACM Digital Library. I expect the 2007 and future proceedings to be made available through the ACM DL as well. Whether it will be applied to past years is…
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The Dominance of Small Code Contributions
What is the most common size of code contributions to open source? Maybe 30 lines of source code? 200 lines? Or just one line? What’s your guess?
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The Commit Size Distribution of Open Source Software [HICSS 2009]
Authors: Oliver Arafat, Dirk Riehle Abstract: With the growing economic importance of open source, we need to improve our understanding of how open source software development processes work. The analysis of code contributions to open source projects is an important part of such research. In this paper we analyze the size of code contributions to…
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Learning from Wikipedia: Open Collaboration within Corporations
Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia that has taken the Internet by storm. It is written and administered solely by volunteers. How exactly did this come about and how does it work? Can it keep working? And maybe more importantly, can you transfer its practices to the workplace to achieve similar levels of dedication and…