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Three open data sources made easy
What are the the top three most promising open data sources that you would like to combine for an innovative app or data analysis? Please let us know and we will try to make it easy for you. In more detail (for developers) Open data can be hard to use: Every data source is different,…
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The innovations of open source article republished in IEEE Computing Edge’s April 2020 issue
IEEE’s Computing Edge magazine is a practitioner-oriented publication that republishes particularly popular content from other IEEE publications. In the April 2020 issue, they republished last year’s The Innovations of Open Source article that I wrote to open IEE Computer magazine’s bimonthly open source column. Best of all, it is free! (Original version, local copy.) I…
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Single-vendor open source firms [Computer Magazine]
I’m happy to report that the seventh article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Single-Vendor Open Source Firms Keywords Open Source, Single-vendor Open Source, Commercial Open Source Authors Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 4 (April 2020), pp 68-72 Abstract: This article present a particular business…
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Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre, and open-source software communities [TSE Journal]
Abstract We draw on the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature to identify practices for managing EV in free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities. Infrequent but ongoing participation is widespread, but the practices that community managers are using to manage EV, and their concerns about EV, have not been previously documented. We…
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GitHub workflows for office documents
On April 1st, 2020 (no joke), we founded EDITIVE, to take the lessons learned from git and GitHub to office documents. Here is an illustration of the problem that EDITIVE is solving, a typical office document for a contract that has been mangled by too many people: The solution to sort out a mess like…
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Why I gray-listed GitHub for open source
Most of my software development is through my professorship, where I guide my student teams in developing (mostly) open source software. We have clear rules in place for how and which open source can be used in our projects and which can’t, like any competent organization. Mostly, it is about license compliance. We owe this…