Open Source Communities: The Sociotechnical Institutionalization of Collective Invention

Author(s):  
Jan-Felix Schrape
Author(s):  
Jan-Felix Schrape

Over the last 20 years, open-source development has become an integral part of the software industry. Against this backdrop, this article seeks to develop a systematic overview of open-source communities and their socio-economic contexts. I begin with a reconstruction of the genesis of open-source software projects and their changing relationships to established information technology companies. This is followed by the identification of four ideal-type variants of current open-source projects that differ significantly in their modes of coordination and the degree of corporate involvement. Further, I examine why open-source projects lost their subversive connotations while, in contrast to former cases of collective invention, remaining viable beyond the initial phase of innovation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Röwenstrunk

Zusammenfassung Die Langzeitverfügbarkeit von Forschungsergebnissen und der dafür häufig notwendige langfristige Erhalt der Lauffähigkeit von Software ist eine gemeinschaftliche Herausforderung für Forschung, Softwareentwicklung und Gedächtnisinstitutionen. Es stehen verschiedene Maßnahmen wie Standardisierung, Emulation oder auch die Weiterentwicklung durch Open-Source-Communities zur Verfügung, die in unterschiedlichen Kontexten für unterschiedliche Arten von Software zum Einsatz kommen können.


2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben van Wendel de Joode

Author(s):  
Kihong Ku ◽  
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Christian Jordan ◽  
Jim Doerfler ◽  
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Open-Source Architecture is an emerging paradigm advocating peer-to-peer collectivity, inclusiveness and participatory culture in architectural design. These conditions support a broad interest at the intersection of education, research and practice in emerging design technologies exploring formal complexity, performance, biomimicry and responsiveness. In the last decade, rich participatory, open-source communities, open-source software, and open-source hardware, created by and designed for the fields of parametric and algorithmic design, visual programming, and physical computing have emerged with resulting opportunities for change in architectural education. We discuss pedagogical approaches that introduce pathways for open-source cultures in architectural design and personal learning networks for professional development.


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