Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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Global Open Source Trends and Public Initiatives
I’ll be moderating the experts panel on “Global Open Source Trends and Public Initiatives” at the half-day Global Open Source Conference on March 24th, 2008, in San Francisco. Panel participants are Mark Radcliffe of DLA Piper, Sander Ruiter from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Tony Wasserman of CMU West, and Arnaud Le Hors of…
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WikiSym 2008 Call for Papers
The International Symposium on Wikis http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/ September 8-10, 2008, Porto, Portugal In-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB * ACM-DL Archived
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Continuous Integration in Open Source Software Development [OSS 2008]
Authors: Amit Deshpande, Dirk Riehle Abstract: Commercial software firms are increasingly using and contributing to open source software. Thus, they need to understand and work with open source software development processes. This paper investigates whether the practice of continuous integration of agile software development methods has had an impact on open source software projects. Using…
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SDN: Selling Services for Stock Open Source Components…
[…] There is much less demand for open source services than one might have expected. But it is not only the demand-side. The supply of such services is also problematic. Why? Because it is a hard business to be in. Why that? Because there are no juicy profit margins. Now, that needs some explanation. Read…
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SDN: Is there Money in Open Source Services?
IDC’s Matt Lawton recently released a new report about open source adoption: “However, project vendors, project partners, and vendor partners need to step up and provide support and attendant services in order to move the adoption of OSS from early adopters to the mainstream. Only 12% of all projects are supported by a commercial software…
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Onward! 2008 Call for Papers
Is DNA recombination your inspiration for a new programming language? Or do you simply think it is time to improve generics in Java? Do you think that we need new paradigms for bringing programming to the masses in Second Life and on Wikipedia? That we need new and significantly more robust systems than before that…