Managing Episodic Volunteers in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Communities

Managing Conflicts in Open Source Communities

Managing Risk in Open Source Software Adoption

By 2016 an estimated 95% of all commercial software packages will include Open Source Software (OSS). This extended adoption is yet not avoiding failure rates in OSS projects to be as high as 50%. Inadequate risk management has been identified among the top mistakes to avoid when implementing OSS-based solutions. Understanding, managing and mitigating OSS adoption risks is therefore crucial to ...

Trends in Free, Libre, Open Source Software Communities: From Volunteers to Companies / Aktuelle Trends in Free-, Libre-, und Open-Source-Software-Gemeinschaften: Von Freiwilligen zu Unternehmen

The first free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) development communities were composed almost exclusively of volunteers. They were individuals who, despite their affiliation, contributed to the project on their own. They decided which project to join, and their contributions were personal in nature, even when in some cases they were employees of companies with some interests in the project. GN...

Open source software communities: current issues

Communities of Practice for Open Source Software

Strategic and economic considerations led the University of São Paulo to institute a program to promote the use of OSS, also driven by a national OSS dissemination policy that draws a lot of mass media attention. The major drivers were software license cost reductions and independence from single vendors, as well as the perception that OSS allows increased user control over systems and interope...