Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Tag: Evergreen

  • System efficiency vs. fragility

    System efficiency vs. fragility

    I just listened to Padmasree Warrior on a Commonwealth Club podcast. Ms Warrior is the chief strategy officer at Cisco. The podcast contains lots of interesting insights and projections (as well as some incorrect statements, specifically that Google was the first search engine company and capitalized on a first-mover advantage). With Cisco being about all…

  • Assumption about longevity and its consequences

    Assumption about longevity and its consequences

    If you have run into me recently, I may have bugged you with the following question: Given the rapid pace of development in medical technology, I expect my generation to live to 100 years of age. A child being born today may live to the age of 250 years of age. Under this assumption, what…

  • The business of open source user foundations (consortia)

    The business of open source user foundations (consortia)

    I held a talk on open source user foundations today, at the OpenUp Camp in Nuremberg. The slides are available as a PDF or on slideshare, embedded below: A small anecdote on the side In preparation of the talk, I looked for academic publications on the Kuali Foundation. I found only one, but I couldn’t…

  • Paid vs. volunteer work in open source [HICSS 2014]

    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…

  • Learning Across Open Collaboration Perspectives

    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…

  • Product management and I know who you are (price discrimination on the web)

    Product management and I know who you are (price discrimination on the web)

    During a trip to New Zealand I found this wool store near Taihape, on the road between Taupo and Wellington. I bought a couple of pieces and was so happy that I went to their website to buy some more, which also turned out to be a pleasant experience. However, when I returned yet again,…