scholarly journals An Analysis of the Dynamics of the Legitimation Processes of Innovations in Open Source Software:

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soran Nouri
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Rational Persuasion ◽  
Validity Claims ◽  
Action Type ◽  
Influence Tactic ◽  
Bug Fixes

Within the Open Source Software (OSS) literature, there is a lack of studies addressing the legitimation processes of innovations that are born in OSS. This study sets out to analyze the legitimation processes of innovations within the deliberations of the Drupal project. The data set constitutes 52 rational deliberation cases discussing innovations that were proposed by members of the community. Habermas’s Ideal Speech Situations (ISS) is used as the framework to view Drupal’s rational deliberations from; in fact within the 52 cases that are examined in this thesis, there were no violations to the guidelines of the ISS in the deliberations. The Communicative Action Theory, Influence Tactics theory and the theory of Validity Claims are aspects of the framework that is used to code and analyze the conversations. These aspects allow for an effective conceptualization of the dynamics of the Drupal deliberations. This thesis was able to find that legitimation processes of innovations in open source software were influenced by the type, complexity and implications of the innovations on the rest of the community. Also, bug fixes, complex innovations and innovations that have implications on the rest of the software will result in a long (in terms of number of comments) legitimation process. Also, it is empirically backed in this study that in open deliberations that aim at achieving mutual understanding towards a common goal, the communicative action type and the rational persuasion influence tactic are the most common methods for innovators to interact with the community.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Dynamics of the Legitimation Processes of Innovations in Open Source Software:

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soran Nouri
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Rational Persuasion ◽  
Validity Claims ◽  
Action Type ◽  
Influence Tactic ◽  
Bug Fixes

Within the Open Source Software (OSS) literature, there is a lack of studies addressing the legitimation processes of innovations that are born in OSS. This study sets out to analyze the legitimation processes of innovations within the deliberations of the Drupal project. The data set constitutes 52 rational deliberation cases discussing innovations that were proposed by members of the community. Habermas’s Ideal Speech Situations (ISS) is used as the framework to view Drupal’s rational deliberations from; in fact within the 52 cases that are examined in this thesis, there were no violations to the guidelines of the ISS in the deliberations. The Communicative Action Theory, Influence Tactics theory and the theory of Validity Claims are aspects of the framework that is used to code and analyze the conversations. These aspects allow for an effective conceptualization of the dynamics of the Drupal deliberations. This thesis was able to find that legitimation processes of innovations in open source software were influenced by the type, complexity and implications of the innovations on the rest of the community. Also, bug fixes, complex innovations and innovations that have implications on the rest of the software will result in a long (in terms of number of comments) legitimation process. Also, it is empirically backed in this study that in open deliberations that aim at achieving mutual understanding towards a common goal, the communicative action type and the rational persuasion influence tactic are the most common methods for innovators to interact with the community.

scholarly journals HARVESTING, INTEGRATING AND DISTRIBUTING LARGE OPEN GEOSPATIAL DATASETS USING FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B7 ◽  
pp. 939-940
Author(s):  
Ricardo Oliveira ◽  
Rafael Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Geospatial Datasets ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The City

Federal, State and Local government agencies in the USA are investing heavily on the dissemination of Open Data sets produced by each of them. The main driver behind this thrust is to increase agencies’ transparency and accountability, as well as to improve citizens’ awareness. However, not all Open Data sets are easy to access and integrate with other Open Data sets available even from the same agency. The City and County of Denver Open Data Portal distributes several types of geospatial datasets, one of them is the city parcels information containing 224,256 records. Although this data layer contains many pieces of information it is incomplete for some custom purposes. Open-Source Software were used to first collect data from diverse City of Denver Open Data sets, then upload them to a repository in the Cloud where they were processed using a PostgreSQL installation on the Cloud and Python scripts. Our method was able to extract non-spatial information from a ‘not-ready-to-download’ source that could then be combined with the initial data set to enhance its potential use.

scholarly journals HARVESTING, INTEGRATING AND DISTRIBUTING LARGE OPEN GEOSPATIAL DATASETS USING FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B7 ◽  
pp. 939-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Oliveira ◽  
Rafael Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Geospatial Datasets ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The City

Federal, State and Local government agencies in the USA are investing heavily on the dissemination of Open Data sets produced by each of them. The main driver behind this thrust is to increase agencies’ transparency and accountability, as well as to improve citizens’ awareness. However, not all Open Data sets are easy to access and integrate with other Open Data sets available even from the same agency. The City and County of Denver Open Data Portal distributes several types of geospatial datasets, one of them is the city parcels information containing 224,256 records. Although this data layer contains many pieces of information it is incomplete for some custom purposes. Open-Source Software were used to first collect data from diverse City of Denver Open Data sets, then upload them to a repository in the Cloud where they were processed using a PostgreSQL installation on the Cloud and Python scripts. Our method was able to extract non-spatial information from a ‘not-ready-to-download’ source that could then be combined with the initial data set to enhance its potential use.

scholarly journals Religious Pluralism Discourse in Public Sphere of Indonesia: A Critical Application of Communicative Action Theory to Inter-religious Dialogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-188
Author(s):  
Sung Min Kim ◽  
J.B. Banawiratma ◽  
Dicky Sofjan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
Validity Claims ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines religious pluralism discourse in post-Reformasi Indonesia. Though there is general consensus about the importance of maintaining inter-religious harmony, there are still various perspectives and arguments on the idealization of dealing with religious diversity in society. The differences are found not only between the advocates and opponents of religious pluralism but also among proponent groups of religious pluralism. This paper looks at how religious organizations for inter-religious harmony struggle for legitimating their religious pluralism ideals in society. In this context, this paper, by using Habermas’ theory of communicative action, focuses on the characteristics of their efforts to communicate with others in the public sphere. It examines inter-faith dialogue done by NGOs’ activities and arguments, focusing on their validity claims for justifying religious pluralism. This paper argues that some conceptions and presuppositions of this theory need to be critically assessed and modified in analyzing these NGOs’ discourse so that it can be appropriately applied to the Indonesian context in which religion has substantial power to influence people’s thoughts and behaviors. Particularly it will point out 1) the problem of universalized rationality, 2) power relation and strategic action, and 3) the role of religious reason in public discourse. [Artikel ini mengkaji diskursus pluralisme agama di era pasca-Reformasi Indonesia. Meski ada kesepakatan akan pentingnya membangun harmoni lintas agama, tapi pada tataran praktiknya masih ada pelbagai perspektif dan argumentasi dalam menyikapi keanekaragaman agama dalam masyarakat. Perbedaan ini tidak hanya ditemukan di kalangan mereka yang kontra, tapi juga di kalangan mereka yang pro pluralisme agama. Artikel ini bermaksud meneliti bagaimana organisasi agama yang memperjuangkan harmoni lintas agama berjuang memancang ide-ide ideal mereka terkait pluralisme agama di masyarakat. Dalam konteks ini, penelitian ini mengacu pada teori communicative action-nya Habermas dan fokus memantau karakteristik organisasi-organisasi tersebut dalam berinteraksi satu sama lain di ruang publik. Artikel ini bermaksud menguji sejauh mana dialog antar-agama dilakukan oleh organisasi-organisasi ini, terutama validitas klaim mereka dalam menjustifikasi pluralisme agama. Artikel ini berargumen bahwa konsepsi dan asumsi dari teori-teori tersebut perlu ditinjau ulang secara kritis untuk bisa diterapkan dalam konteks Indonesia, di mana agama masih memiliki kekuatan potensial untuk mempengaruhi pemikiran dan perilaku masyarakat. Secara khusus artikel ini akan membahas 1) problem rasionalitas universal, 2) relasi kuasa dan aksi strategis, serta 3) peran logika agama di ruang (diskursus) publik.

scholarly journals Improvement of Open Source Software Usability: An Empirical Evaluation from Developers' Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Raza ◽  
Luiz F. Capretz ◽  
Faheem Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Software Usability ◽  
The Impact

User satisfaction has always been important for software success whether it is Open Source Software (OSS) or closed proprietary software. Even though we do not presume that OSS always has poor usability, as there are examples of good usable open source software, it would still be agreed that OSS usability has room for further improvement. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the impact of some key factors on OSS usability from developers' points of view. This is one of the series of four studies that we are conducting regarding improvement of OSS usability from OSS developers, users, contributors, and industry perspectives. The research model of this empirical investigation studies and establishes the relationship between the key usability factors from developers' perspective and OSS usability. A data set of 106 OSS developers from 18 open source projects of varied size has been used to study the research model. The results of this study provide empirical evidence that the studied key factors play a significant role in improving OSS usability.

scholarly journals Data Set Failures and Intersectional Data

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Representative Sampling ◽  
Software Developer ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Demographic Survey ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Web

In 2016, a software developer named David and I met to discuss creating a quantitative demographic survey of the open source software community to which we were both long-time contributors. David and I did not know each other well, but shared a belief that our open source community (OSC, hereafter) was an unsafe place for anyone who did not identify as white, cisgendered, heterosexual and male. That lack of safety was further complicated by any one individual's distance from privileged modes of contribution. In OSC, developers who were on key Contribution Teams and regularly added code to the codebase were valued more highly than those who contributed documentation, user experience research, or quality assurance work. David asked "What if we made a survey that accounted for all of the ways that people make the web? Can we do it intersectionally? Can we do it the OSC way?" Over the following 18 months, David and I worked with a team of OSC community members on the creation, dissemination and analysis of a quantitative demographic survey of OSC. This survey was the first step in a project to create safer spaces within OSC for individuals from marginalized groups. Rather than this survey being an attempt to gather a representative sampling, it was part of a larger political project to increase diversity, inclusion and equity in our community.

scholarly journals MAIP: A Prediction Platform for Predicting Blood-Stage Malaria Inhibitors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Bosc ◽  
Eloy Felix ◽  
Ricardo Arcila ◽  
David Mendez ◽  
Martin Saunders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Practical Challenge ◽  
Qsar Models ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Sub Saharan

Abstract Malaria is a disease affecting hundreds of millions of people across the world, mainly in developing countries and especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the cause of hundreds of thousands of deaths each year and there is an ever-present need to identify and develop effective new therapies to tackle the disease and overcome increasing drug resistance. Here, we extend a previous study in which a number of partners collaborated to develop a consensus in silico model that can be used to identify novel molecules that may have antimalarial properties. The performance of machine learning methods generally improves with the number of data points available for training. One practical challenge in building large training sets is that the data is often proprietary and cannot be straightforwardly integrated. Here, this was addressed by sharing QSAR models, each built on a private data set. We describe the development of an open-source software platform for creating such models, a comprehensive evaluation of methods to create a single consensus model and a web platform called MAIP available at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/maip/. MAIP is freely available for the wider community to make large-scale predictions of potential malaria inhibiting compounds. This project also highlights some of the practical challenges in reproducing published computational methods and the opportunities that open source software can offer to the community.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Open Source Software Usability

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Raza ◽  
Luiz Fernando Capretz ◽  
Faheem Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Software Usability ◽  
Novice Users ◽  
The Relationship

Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the use of open source projects by common novice users; Open Source Software (OSS) is thus no longer a reserved arena for software developers and computer gurus. Although user-centered designs are gaining popularity in OSS, usability is still not considered one of the prime objectives in many design scenarios. This paper analyzes industry users’ perception of usability factors, including understandability, learnability, operability, and attractiveness on OSS usability. The research model of this empirical study establishes the relationship between the key usability factors and OSS usability from industrial perspective. In order to conduct the study, a data set of 105 industry users is included. The results of the empirical investigation indicate the significance of the key factors for OSS usability.

scholarly journals Software and database structure to analyze the relationship between aerosol, clouds and precipitation: SAMAC

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 3645-3679 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gagné ◽  
L. P. MacDonald ◽  
W. R. Leaitch ◽  
J. R. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Precipitation Data ◽  
Aircraft Measurements ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Airborne Measurements ◽  
Database Structure ◽  
Software Program ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The analysis of aircraft-based measurements of clouds are critical for studies of aerosol and clouds. Many such measurements have been taken, but it is difficult to compare such data across instruments, flights and campaigns. We present a new open-source software program, SAMAC (Software for Airborne Measurements of Aerosol and Clouds), that may enable a more generic approach to the analysis of aerosol-cloud-precipitation data. The software offers a faster and standardized approach to the analysis of aircraft measurements of clouds across campaigns. SAMAC is an object-oriented software program in which a cloud is an object. The cloud objects come with built-in methods and properties that allow for the quick generation of basic plots and calculations, which provide a quick view of the data set and may be used to compare clouds and to filter for specific characteristics. Other researchers are encouraged to apply the software to their data and to contribute to its improvement. SAMAC can be downloaded at https://github.com/StephGagne/SAMAC/releases.

scholarly journals MAIP: A web service for predicting blood-stage malaria inhibitors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Bosc ◽  
Eloy Felix ◽  
Ricardo Arcila ◽  
David Mendez ◽  
Martin Saunders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Practical Challenge ◽  
Qsar Models ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Sub Saharan

Abstract Malaria is a disease affecting hundreds of millions of people across the world, mainly in developing countries and especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the cause of hundreds of thousands of deaths each year and there is an ever-present need to identify and develop effective new therapies to tackle the disease and overcome increasing drug resistance. Here, we extend a previous study in which a number of partners collaborated to develop a consensus in silico model that can be used to identify novel molecules that may have antimalarial properties. The performance of machine learning methods generally improves with the number of data points available for training. One practical challenge in building large training sets is that the data are often proprietary and cannot be straightforwardly integrated. Here, this was addressed by sharing QSAR models, each built on a private data set. We describe the development of an open-source software platform for creating such models, a comprehensive evaluation of methods to create a single consensus model and a web platform called MAIP available at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/maip/. MAIP is freely available for the wider community to make large-scale predictions of potential malaria inhibiting compounds. This project also highlights some of the practical challenges in reproducing published computational methods and the opportunities that open-source software can offer to the community.

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