Collaboration, conflict and control: the 4th workshop on open source software engineering

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Feller ◽  
B. Fitzgerald ◽  
S. Hissam ◽  
K. Lakhani
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Leveraging Final Degree Projects for Open Source Software Contributions

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1181
Author(s):  
Juanan Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Real World ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Final Degree

(1) Background: final year students of computer science engineering degrees must carry out a final degree project (FDP) in order to graduate. Students’ contributions to improve open source software (OSS) through FDPs can offer multiple benefits and challenges, both for the students, the instructors and for the project itself. This work reports on a practical experience developed by four students contributing to mature OSS projects during their FDPs, detailing how they addressed the multiple challenges involved, both from the students and teachers perspective. (2) Methods: we followed the work of four students contributing to two established OSS projects for two academic years and analyzed their work on GitHub and their responses to a survey. (3) Results: we obtained a set of specific recommendations for future practitioners and detailed a list of benefits achieved by steering FDP towards OSS contributions, for students, teachers and the OSS projects. (4) Conclusion: we find out that FDPs oriented towards enhancing OSS projects can introduce students into real-world, practical examples of software engineering principles, give them a boost in their confidence about their technical and communication skills and help them build a portfolio of contributions to daily used worldwide open source applications.

How the FLOSS Research Community Uses Email Archives

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Squire
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Email Message ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Broad Overview

Artifacts of the software development process, such as source code or emails between developers, are a frequent object of study in empirical software engineering literature. One of the hallmarks of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects is that the artifacts of the development process are publicly-accessible and therefore easily collected and studied. Thus, there is a long history in the FLOSS research community of using these artifacts to gain understanding about the phenomenon of open source software, which could then be compared to studies of software engineering more generally. This paper looks specifically at how the FLOSS research community has used email artifacts from free and open source projects. It provides a classification of the relevant literature using a publicly-available online repository of papers about FLOSS development using email. The outcome of this paper is to provide a broad overview for the software engineering and FLOSS research communities of how other researchers have used FLOSS email message artifacts in their work.

Open Source software engineering –- The state of research

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Koch ◽  
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
State Of Research

The following commentary is part of First Monday's Special Issue #2: Open Source.

scholarly journals On Engagement With ICT Standards and Their Implementations in Open Source Software Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Jonas Gamalielsson ◽  
Björn Lundell
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
And Control

This paper presents novel results concerning engagement with ICT standards and their implementations in open source software (OSS). Specifically, findings draw from observations and analysis related to standards and implementations in the multimedia field. The first part of the study reports on experiences and insights from engagement with standards in the multimedia field and from implementation of such standards in OSS projects. The second part of the study focuses on the case of the ITU-T H.264 standard and the two OSS projects OpenH264 and x264 that both implement the standard, and reports on a characterisation of organisations that engage with and control the H.264 standard, and organisations that engage with and control OSS projects implementing the H.264 standard. Further, projects for standardisation and implementation of H.264 are contrasted with respect to mix of contributing organisations, and findings are related to organisational strategies of contributing organisations and previous research.

scholarly journals Open Source Software Engineering Theory: Intelligent Educational Tool Increases Placement of Graduates in STEM-related Careers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naser El-Bathy ◽  
Clay Gloster ◽  
Ghassan Azar ◽  
Cameron Seay ◽  
Mohammed El-Bathy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Engineering Theory
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