Five Bar Parallel Plotter based on Construction Kits and Open Source Development Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Roskam ◽  
Luc Rolland
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Construction Kits ◽  
Open Source Development

Does an Open Source Development Environment Facilitate Conventional Project Management Approaches and Collaborative Work?

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-256
Author(s):  
Richard Garling
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Network Time ◽  
Network Time Protocol ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Open Source Development

Open source software (OSS) is very well known for allowing free access to the source code of the application. The idea is to allow for the creation of a better product. The more people working to make each aspect of an application better, more minds create more ideas, create a better project. OSS runs the internet since all of the protocols—network time protocol (NTP), HTTP, amongst many others—are OSS projects with many years of use. These projects are run by volunteers worldwide. But, none of these projects are run using the traditional methodologies of project management: Waterfall and Agile. This chapter asks: How does an open source development environment facilitate conventional Waterfall project management approaches? and How does an open source development environment facilitate Agile project collaborative work? The method used to determine the answers used surveys and questionnaires involving actual participants in a variety of OSS projects from across the United States (US). The questions asked concerned the organization OSS projects, did they use a particular traditional methodology or some other non-defined method of organization? The answers received by this study centered on non-defined methods of organization; traditional methodologies were considered too restrictive and not agile enough to allow for the freedom cherished by their volunteers.

Does an Open Source Development Environment Facilitate Conventional Project Management Approaches and Collaborative Work?

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-123
Author(s):  
Richard Garling
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Network Time ◽  
Network Time Protocol ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Open Source Development

Open source software (OSS) is very well known for allowing free access to the source code of the application. The idea is to allow for the creation of a better product. The more people working to make each aspect of an application better, more minds create more ideas, create a better project. OSS runs the internet since all of the protocols—network time protocol (NTP), HTTP, amongst many others—are OSS projects with many years of use. These projects are run by volunteers worldwide. But, none of these projects are run using the traditional methodologies of project management: Waterfall and Agile. This chapter asks: How does an open source development environment facilitate conventional Waterfall project management approaches? and How does an open source development environment facilitate Agile project collaborative work? The method used to determine the answers used surveys and questionnaires involving actual participants in a variety of OSS projects from across the United States (US). The questions asked concerned the organization OSS projects, did they use a particular traditional methodology or some other non-defined method of organization? The answers received by this study centered on non-defined methods of organization; traditional methodologies were considered too restrictive and not agile enough to allow for the freedom cherished by their volunteers.

Bridging the Academia-Industry Gap in Software Engineering

2014 ◽  
pp. 373-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie K. MacKellar ◽  
Mihaela Sabin ◽  
Allen B. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Real World ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Development Practice ◽  
Open Source Development

Too often, computer science programs offer a software engineering course that emphasizes concepts, principles, and practical techniques, but fails to engage students in real-world software experiences. The authors have developed an approach to teaching undergraduate software engineering courses that integrates client-oriented project development and open source development practice. They call this approach the Client-Oriented Open Source Software (CO-FOSS) model. The advantages of this approach are that students are involved directly with a client, nonprofits gain a useful software application, and the project is available as open source for other students or organizations to extend and adapt. This chapter describes the motivation, elaborates the approach, and presents the results in substantial detail. The process is agile and the development framework is transferrable to other one-semester software engineering courses in a wide range of institutions.

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