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.

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 The Automation of Standard People Operations in the Energy Transport

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 203-213
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Energy Transport ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Human Labour ◽  
The Future ◽  
Automation Tools ◽  
And Control

The automation of business processes and operations is a global trend. Automation is software or mechanical self-fulfilling process without or with a minimal human intervention and control. In specific processes and parts of the energy transport the automation is already happening. It can replace significant part of human labour or just to take and reduce the routine physical or repeating mental efforts of the jobs. Automation tools and systems in the energy transport are strongly dominated by open-source software automation tools. Therefore, a part of professional skills required before automation will not be useful in the future, but to handle automation trend, many new skills and knowledge will be needed by the human jobs of the future.

Motivation of Open Source Developers

2011 ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Mark R. Allyn ◽  
Ram B. Misra
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Open Source Code ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control ◽  
Work Done

The motivational drivers of open source software developers have been researched by various investigators since about 2000. This work shows that developers are motivated by different extrinsic and intrinsic drivers, among them community aspirations, reciprocity and fairness, creative impulses, and monetary and career ambitions. There has been some work done in studying whether the profile of developer motivations is constant across open source projects or is sensitive to project organizational design. Among the many factors that could influence the mix of motives of OS developers is the license under which the work is performed. Licenses range in openness between those such as the GNU GPL that severely restrict the freedom of developers to mingle their OS code with proprietary code to those such as BSD licenses which allow programmers much greater latitude in integrating open source code with proprietary code. In addition to formal rules, meritocracies emerge to reward effort and performance, and also to direct, coordinate, and control other participants. The authors discuss these variables and how they may be related to motivations.

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.

Homesteading the Noosphere (originally published in Volume 3, Number 10, October 1998)

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Underlying Theory ◽  
Official Ideology ◽  
Hacker Culture ◽  
And Control

After observing a contradiction between the 'official' ideology defined by open-source licenses and the actual behavior of hackers, we examine the actual customs which regulate the ownership and control of open-source software. We discover that they imply an underlying theory of property rights homologous to the Lockean theory of land tenure. We relate that to an analysis of the hacker culture as a 'gift culture' in which participants compete for prestige by giving time, energy, and creativity away. We then examine the implications of this analysis for conflict resolution in the culture, and develop some prescriptive implications.

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