Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Upcoming talk: Inner source in product line engineering
This coming Wednesday, September 18th, 2013, starting at 6:30pm, I’ll be giving a talk on inner source (“open source best practices inside companies”) applied to product line engineering at Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, CA (3000 Hanover Street Building 20, Palo Alto, CA 94304). The San Francisco Bay Area ACM chapter is the host, see…
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Call for Papers: OpenSym 2014, the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
OpenSym 2014, the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration WikiSym 2014, the 10th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration August 27-29, 2014 | Berlin, Germany Jump ahead to call for submissions for About the Conference The 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2014) is the premier conference on open collaboration research, including wikis…
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Call for Papers: OSS 2014, the 10th International Conference on Open Source Systems
The 10th International Conference on Open Source Systems http://oss2014.case.unibz.it https://www.facebook.com/oss.costarica San José, Costa Rica. May 6-9, 2014. Scope of OSS 2014 The International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS) is an accomplished series of conferences on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), which celebrates 10 years of interchange, discussion, progress and openness. In 2014, OSS…
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Paid vs. volunteer work in open source [HICSS 2014]
Abstract: Many open source projects have long become commercial. This paper shows just how much of open source software development is paid work and how much has remained volunteer work. Using a conservative approach, we find that about 50% of all open source software development has been paid work for many years now and that…
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World views are not data inconsistencies
I’m at Wikimania 2013, listening in on the WikiData session. WikiData is the Wikimedia Foundation’s attempt to go beyond prose in Wikipedia pages and provide a reference data source. An obvious problem is that any such data source needs an underlying model of the world, and that sometimes it is not only hard to gain…
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Learning Across Open Collaboration Perspectives
I’m at WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 and happy to notice that some of the hoped-for magic is happening: A cross-polination of insights and ideas across the different disciplinary perspectives on open collaboration. Specifically, I found that open source has developed insights of value to open access, open data, Wikipedia, etc. that have arrived only now…