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Research Positions for CCC’s 2010 Future of Open Source Research Workshop
I will be participating in the Computing Community Consortium’s workshop on the future of open source research at UC Irvine next month. The organizers asked participants to provide a short opinion on three research areas they feel warrant further research. I chose the following three general topics: Quantitative Analyses of Actual Programmer Behavior Improved Open…
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Call for Open Source Dated Dec 12, 1968
Ike Nassi, an Executive Vice President and my former manager at SAP, writes in an email: By accident, while reviewing a very old CACM paper “Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations” by Dennis and Van Horn from March 1966 (!) reprinted in the CACM 25th Anniversary issue (Volume 26, Issue 1 (Jan. 1983) Special 25th Anniversary…
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The economic case for open source foundations [Computer Magazine]
Abstract: An open source foundation is a group of people and companies that has come together to jointly develop community open source software. Examples include the Apache Software Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, and the Gnome Foundation. There are many reasons why software development firms join and support a foundation. One common economic motivation is to…
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Workshop on Open Source, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
The Chair for Economic Policy (Prof. Andreas Freytag) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University and the Max Planck Institute of Econonics, Jena, Germany, are organizing a workshop on “open source, innovation, and entrepreneurship.” It takes place next week, on Jan 14, 2010. It used to be a private, invitation-only workshop, but the organizers decided to open it up…
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2010 Open Source Research Workshops Galore!
It is no big news that open source research has been growing strongly in recent years. However, the recent string of conference and workshop announcements is just amazing. Here is a short run-down of what reached me the last two weeks: 10.-12.02.2010: Workshop on the Future of Research on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) 08.05.2010: 2010…
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Up and Coming Conference Calls for Papers
If you are interested in open source and software engineering, please take a look at these upcoming events: 27.12.2009: (F/L)OSS 2010, research program call for papers 11.01.2009: SSE 2010, a workshop on social software engineering 25.03.2010: OOPSLA 2010, research program call for papers 31.03.2010: Fourth F/LOSS Workshop Disclaimer: Except for the last one I’m on…