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For posteriority and reuse

FIWare is a large EU-sponsored program. It has a mission (“about”) statement. Specifically: FIWare is an open initiative aiming to create a sustainable ecosystem to grasp the opportunities that will emerge with the new wave of digitalization caused by the integration of recent Internet technologies. […] Below is a screenshot documenting the project.

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2015-03-12

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1. Software Industry, 1.1 Industry (General)
From developer networks to verified communities: A fine-grained approach [ICSE 2015]

Abstract Effective software engineering demands a coordinated effort. Unfortunately, a comprehensive view on developer coordination is rarely available to support software-engineering decisions, despite the significant implications on software quality, software architecture, and developer productivity. We present a fine-grained, verifiable, and fully automated approach to capture a view on developer coordination, based on commit information and…

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2015-03-04

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1. Software Industry, 1.1 Industry (General)
How developers acquire FLOSS skills [OSS 2015]

Abstract: With the increasing prominence of open collaboration as found in free/libre/open source software projects and other joint production communities, potential participants need to acquire skills. How these skills are learned has received little research attention. This article presents a large-scale survey (5,309 valid responses) in which users and developers of the beta release of…

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2015-03-04

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1. Software Industry, 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
Improving traceability of requirements through qualitative data analysis [SE 2015]

Abstract Traceability is an important quality aspect in modern software development. It facilitates the documentation of decisions and helps identifying conflicts regarding the conformity of one artifact to another. We propose a new approach to requirements engineering that utilizes qualitative research methods, which have been well established in the domain of social science. Our approach…

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2015-03-04

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3. Research and Teaching, 3.2 Research Methods
The Wall Street Journal and Berlin reporting

The Wall Street Journal provides a nice infographic on the “billion dollar club“, that is, startups of valuation $1B or above. In Europe, the WSJ counts six >$1B startups, of which one is in Amsterdam (Adyen), one is in Stockholm (Spotify) and two are in London (Powa, Shazam) and Berlin (Delivery Hero, Home24). In addition,…

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2015-02-20

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1. Software Industry, 1.6 Software Startups
Public upcoming talks on open source and inner source

A bit belated, I’m happy to announce two upcoming talks: Both talks are accessible to the public, see the flyers.

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2015-02-05

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2. Building Products, 2.3 Open Source (Building), 2.5 Inner Source