Software Research and the Industry

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Entries from August 2008

Open Collaboration: Self-Organizing Innovation in Large Corporations

August 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Author: Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC
Reference: Steven Fraser (editor). “Escaped from the Lab: Innovation Practices in Large Organizations.” In Companion of the 2008 Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA ’08). ACM Press, 2008.
Available as a PDF file (soon); my part follows as HTML below.
Position statement for the OOPSLA 2008 [...]

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Tags: Open Source · Presentation · Research · Wikis

Open Source Software Developer Careers

August 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments

How we develop open source software can vary widely from project to project. However, the roles we play are similar across projects: user, developer, tester, documenter, committer, etc. For a while now, I have been interested in what open source means for software developer careers, in particular with respect to fame and fortune. The figure [...]

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Tags: Industry · Open Source