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OSS 2009 Trip Report

Submitted by awiggins on Mon, 2009-06-29 14:08

6/4/09 - Day 1

Session 1 - Governance of OSS Projects (panel)

Francesco Bolici

Governance is usually understood as management. It's about accountability and eliminating problems with principal-agent from economics. In OSS, this can help with resource allocation, coordination.

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OSS 2009 Doctoral Consortium Notes

Submitted by awiggins on Sun, 2009-06-28 13:59

OSS 2009 DC 5/3/2009

Proceedings at http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=kris.ven&n=71197

Morning session: Firm involvement in OSS, innovation and economic issues

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1. Juho Lindman - OSS Changes and Software Production Models

RQ: How openness changes software production models? IV - openness; DV - software production models (SPM)

SPMs - "mythical" OSS, inner source, shared source, collaboration w/ OSS communities

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IFIP WG 2.13 Business Meeting @ OSS2009

Submitted by awiggins on Tue, 2009-06-09 04:59

IFIP 2.13 business meeting (35 people, 4 women)

Giancarlo Succi - Have to finalize organizational documents in the near future. Investigating higher level of PhD student involvement in the WG 2.13 - thinking about a dissertation award for next year's PhD Consortium.

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Open source software is changing the way work gets done

Submitted by awiggins on Tue, 2009-06-09 04:52

Stormy Peters: Open source software is changing the way work gets done

Tools make a big difference - particularly with respect to transparency and archival retention. OSS allows us to stop reinventing the wheel.

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How Open Source Can Still Save the World - Brian Behlendorf

Submitted by awiggins on Fri, 2009-06-05 05:22

Keynote address by Brian Behlendorf on 5 June 2009. Brian is a co-founder of the ASF, co-creator of CollabNet, and involved in the Mozilla Foundation, among others. He's now active in Washington, working to help the government understand OSS.

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Women@OSS Breakfast

Submitted by awiggins on Thu, 2009-06-04 03:22

This morning there was an informal breakfast for the women at the conference, and supporting male friends, of course. It was a really nice opportunity to meet some of the other women at the conference, and it seems that there are a lot more women here this year than last. In 2008, I counted about 10% female attendance in any given session, but at yesterday's doctoral consortium, 28% of the attendees were women. It was really encouraging. Not that I mind being a minority in the field, but being the only female student was a bit startling to me last year.

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OSS 2009 Doctoral Consortium

Submitted by awiggins on Thu, 2009-06-04 03:14

The OSS 2009 doctoral consortium was really fantastic. Most students that I talked to thought this was the best consortium that we've experienced, in terms of being really developmentally valuable. I suspect that this is because of the shared context, which does far more to promote useful dialog than any kind of disciplinary commonality. Instead of wasting a bunch of time explaining what FLOSS is and why it's interesting, we can all just cut to the chase and talk about the interesting stuff - and everyone knows what you're talking about, so they can actually provide useful feedback.

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Preparing for OSS2009

Submitted by awiggins on Sat, 2009-05-30 16:15

I'm preparing for the trip to Sweden for the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems in a couple of days by making some tweaks to the FLOSShub website. The newest improvements include updated profiles and viewing permissions, and the addition of a blog entry node type for registered users. I plan to use the blogging functionality on the FLOSShub site for my OSS2009 trip report contents; hopefully others will follow suit.

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