Open Calls and Pilot Projects

Pilot Projects in Water Management

Pilot projects appear in many forms in policy making and management. In an effort to understand the nature and use of pilot projects and improve their effectiveness, we undertake a practicebased and theoretical study of the pilot project phenomenon. First, we examine the roles assigned to pilot projects in the policy development literature and explore their use in a Dutch water innovation platf...

Lessons Learned on Mainstreaming Pilot Projects into Larger Projects

Performance of Open Source Projects

The patterns in this paper describe open source development practices from a performance perspective. In product development, performance is measured in terms of the time it takes to develop a software product, the resulting quality of the software, and the cost of development. These dimensions are in tension with one another. Since improving performance has side effects, we also need to includ...

Involving Software Engineering Students in Open Source Software Projects: Experiences from a Pilot Study

Anecdotal and research evidences show that the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) development model has produced a paradigm shift in the way we develop, support, and distribute software. This shift is not only redefining the software industry but also the way we teach and learn in our software engineering (SE) courses. But for many universities F/OSS is seen as an optional low cost technolog...

Characteristics of Open Source Projects

Most empirical studies about Open Source (OS) projects or products are vertical and usually deal with the flagship, successful projects. There is a substantial lack of horizontal studies to shed light on the whole population of projects, including failures. This paper presents a horizontal study aimed at characterizing OS projects. We analyze a sample of around 400 projects from a popular OS pr...