Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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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…
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WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 Proceedings Published!
The WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 proceedings have been made available online. Please see below for the table of contents, including through-clickable papers. All papers listed can be cited as appearing in the Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (WikiSym + OpenSym 2013). ACM, 2013. FRONTMATTER FW Abstract Foreword, Table of Contents,…
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How commercial involvement affects open source projects: Three case studies on issue reporting [Science China Journal]
Abstract: Most research on Internet software today has focused on inventing new technologies to keep track of a changing Internet. Little attention has been paid to the software development processes of Internet software. A large part of the software running the Internet is open source software. Open source software is developed both by volunteers and…