Judging from my industry friends, some time in their professional career (usually later), the teaching bug bites them and they wonder about passing on their knowledge to a new generation of industrialists and entrepreneurs. A regular position as a professor at a German public university or a polytechnic (university of applied sciences) is often unattainable because of age and a missing or limited publication record, and even though I’d recommend it, contributing as an unpaid lecturer and building up a vita to go for an honorary professor position seems unattractive.
Continue reading “Should You Be Teaching at a Venture-Backed Private College?”Upcoming Industry Talk on What Happens When Project = 1 Team Stops Being Feasible: Scaling Methods, Tools and Skills, Online and IRL by Giovanna Luisi of GfK, Growth from Knowledge
We will be hosting an industry talk on what happens when Project = 1 Team stops being feasible: Scaling methods, tools and skills, online and IRL. The talk is free and open to the public.
- by: Giovanna Luisi of GfK, Growth from Knowledge
- about: Agile at scale
- on: January 14th, 2021, 10:15 Uhr
- on: Zoom (link after registration)
- as part of: AMOS speaker series
Video for Breaking Down Organizational Silos with Inner Source (in German)
Eberhard Wolff just published the recording of my lunch chat on Software Architektur TV with him. Our topic was inner source and how to tear down firm-internal silos for better code reuse, more knowledge sharing, and generally more satisfied employees. Check it out below (local copy) or visit Eberhard’s site for it!
Or, just take a look at @teapot4181‘s fabulous visual summary.
Continue reading “Video for Breaking Down Organizational Silos with Inner Source (in German)”Company Support for Open Source Stable for 15 Years Now?!
I just read Nagle et al.’s Report on the 2020 FOSS Contributor Survey. They find that about 50% of contributors are paid by their employers to work on open source software. This confirms a 2013 paper on paid vs. volunteer work in open source of ours, which also suggested that about half of all development takes place on company time. The rub: Our paper used rather old, pre-Github times data from 2007 (culled from Ohloh, now OpenHub).
Does this mean that in the last 15 years or so corporate engagement in open source has remained stable?
Continue reading “Company Support for Open Source Stable for 15 Years Now?!”Breaking Down Organizational Silos with Inner Source (in German)
This coming Friday, December 11th, 2020, at noon CET, I’ll be a guest in Eberhard Wolff’s Software Architektur lunch chat. Our topic is how to break down organizational silos using open source methods, which is, you guessed it, using inner source. Join me through Software Architektur TV and send us your questions in advance (or live)!
Continuous Open Source License Compliance (Phipps & Zacchiroli, IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 12th article in the Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer has been published.
Title | Continuous Open Source License Compliance |
Keywords | Open Source Software, Licenses, Supply Chains, Standards, Computer Security |
Authors | Simon Phipps, Meshed Insights Ltd. Stefano Zacchiroli, Universite de Paris, France |
Publication | Computer vol. 53, no. 12 (December 2020), pp. 115-119 |
Standardizing Open Source License Compliance With OpenChain (Shane Coughlan, IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 11th article in the Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer has been published.
Title | Standardizing Open Source License Compliance With OpenChain |
Keywords | Cryptography, Distributed Databases, IEC Standards, ISO Standards, Legislation, Project Management, Public Domain Software, Software Development Management, Software Standards, Blockchain, Open Chain Project, ISO IEC JTC 1 PAS Transposition Process, Open Source License Compliance Standardization, Open Source Software, Standards, Licenses |
Authors | Shane Coughlan, Linux Foundation |
Publication | Computer vol. 53, no. 11 (November 2020), pp. 70-74 |
Join me at Europe’s Digital Decade: Empowered by Open Source Event
On Nov 5, starting at 2pm, a EU task force will present its findings on open source in Europe on hopin. Join the event and/or join me for my panel session at 5pm about commercial open source startups!
Open Sourcing Research Software
Tools for Software Composition Analysis (Philippe Ombredanne, IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the tenth article in the Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer has been published.
Title | Free and Open Source Software License Compliance: Tools for Software Composition Analysis |
Keywords | Open Source Software, Software Composition, Open Source Licenses, Automation |
Authors | Philippe Ombredanne, nexB Inc. |
Publication | Computer vol. 53, no. 10 (October 2020), pp. 105-109 |