Socio-Technical Deliberation about Free and Open Source Software: Accounting for the Status of Artifacts in Public Life

2007 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Benoit-Barné
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Status

Library Automation in First Grade Colleges Affiliated to University of Mysore: A Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
K. S. Chitra ◽  
Mallinath Kumbar
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Library Automation ◽  
Intensive Training ◽  
The Status ◽  
College Libraries ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The present paperprovides the status of library automation of first gradecollege libraries affiliated to University of Mysore. A structured questionnaire was used as the tool to collect basic inputs from college libraries to understand the present status. A total of 160 colleges were taken up for the study in which 135(84.37%)colleges responded,15 first grade college libraries did not have librarians and 10 librarians did not respond.The findings of the study reveal that 60(63.83%)college libraries are using open source software E-Granthalaya and KOHA software for library automation. Out of 135 colleges,29 (30.85%) college libraries are fully automated, 65(69.15%) college libraries are partially automated and 41(28.90%) libraries are not automated. The librarians have to attend intensive training programs on deputation or have to become proficient on their own in automation in order to provide effective and efficient services to users.

scholarly journals A study of quality prediction for large-scale open source software projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Shinji Akatsu ◽  
Ayako Masuda ◽  
Tsuyoshi Shida ◽  
Kazuhiko Tsuda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Quality Prediction ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Resolution Rate ◽  
The Status

Open source software (OSS) has seen remarkable progress in recent years. Moreover, OSS usage in corporate information systems has been increasing steadily; consequently, the overall impact of OSS on the society is increasing as well. While product quality of enterprise software is assured by the provider, the deliverables of an OSS are developed by the OSS developer community; therefore, their quality is not guaranteed. Thus, the objective of this study is to build an artificial-intelligence-based quality prediction model that corporate businesses could use for decision-making to determine whether a desired OSS should be adopted. We define the quality of an OSS as “the resolution rate of issues processed by OSS developers as well as the promptness and continuity of doing so.” We selected 44 large-scale OSS projects from GitHub for our quality analysis. First, we investigated the monthly changes in the status of issue creation and resolution for each project. It was found that there are three different patterns in the increase of issue creation, and three patterns in the relationship between the increase in issue creation and that of resolution. It was confirmed that there are multiple cases of each pattern that affect the final resolution rate. Next, we investigated the correlation between the final resolution rate and that for a relevant number of months after issue creation. We deduced that the correlation coefficient even between the resolution rate in the first month and the final rate exceeded 0.5. Based on these analysis results, we conclude that the issue resolution rate in the first month once an issue is created is applicable as knowledge for knowledge-based AI systems that can be used to assist in decision-making regarding OSS adoption in business projects.

scholarly journals Developing a Software Mechanism for Scheduling and Tracking Project Lifecycle Using Open-Source Software: An application on a government institution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Osman Abd allah Nasr Ali
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
The Status ◽  
College Of Business ◽  
And Control ◽  
Project Lifecycle ◽  
Government Institution

This research aims at developing a software mechanism for scheduling and tracking the status of pre-planned tasks using an open sources to achieve projects in government institutions based on project management theory. This mechanism will facilitate the system process via planning, managing, and evaluating the project team activities to ensure that the project is running according to the time and financial plans. The system will also enables the work team to share tasks information, and follow their status during the lifecycle of these tasks. The system will also allow the project management to benefit from these reports to continuously assess individuals, tasks, and refine management decisions for present and future projects. The study is also relied on an open source project management software (ODOO) in planning, implementation, and the following up of an academic quality accreditation project of the department of ( MIS ) in the College of Business (King Khalid University, KSA, 2018-2020). The application of such software will allow improvement, and control participants performance and achievement of the tasks entrusted to them. Also some software components will be added and reused.

Session details: Open source software: intellectual challenges to the status quo

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marty J. Wolf ◽  
Kevin Bowyer ◽  
Don Gotterbarn ◽  
Keith Miller
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status

An Algorithm for Gradual Patch Acceptance Detection in Open Source Software Repository Mining

2012 ◽  
Vol E95.A (9) ◽  
pp. 1478-1489
Author(s):  
Passakorn PHANNACHITTA ◽  
Akinori IHARA ◽  
Pijak JIRAPIWONG ◽  
Masao OHIRA ◽  
Ken-ichi MATSUMOTO
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Repository ◽  
Repository Mining ◽  
Software Repository Mining

Hacking Diversity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Dunbar-Hester
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Technical Production ◽  
Preferred Solutions

Hacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by technologically skilled women are drastically lower in hacking communities than in industry and academia. This book investigates the activists engaged in free and open-source software to understand why, despite their efforts, they fail to achieve the diversity that their ideals support. The book shows that within this well-meaning volunteer world, beyond the sway of human resource departments and equal opportunity legislation, members of underrepresented groups face unique challenges. The book explores who participates in voluntaristic technology cultures, to what ends, and with what consequences. Digging deep into the fundamental assumptions underpinning STEM-oriented societies, the book demonstrates that while the preferred solutions of tech enthusiasts—their “hacks” of projects and cultures—can ameliorate some of the “bugs” within their own communities, these methods come up short for issues of unequal social and economic power. Distributing “diversity” in technical production is not equal to generating justice. The book reframes questions of diversity advocacy to consider what interventions might appropriately broaden inclusion and participation in the hacking world and beyond.

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