Providing Commercial Open Source Software: Lessons Learned

A study of configuration management in open source software projects

Projects where developers are geographically distributed and with high personnel turnover are usually considered to be hard to manage. Any organisation that successfully handles such projects merits closer analysis so that lessons can be learned and good practice disseminated. Open Source Software projects represent such a case. One important factor is good configuration management practices. I...

Software Engineering Lessons from Open Source Projects

The Open Source form of software development has captured the attention of academics and software practitioners alike. Though, this ‘phenomenon’ has been touted by some to be how all software will eventually be developed, many are critical about how far this form of organization will be successful. It is very likely that both the traditional form as well as the Open Source form of organization ...

Reusing Open-Source Software and Practices: The Impact of Open-Source on Commercial Vendors

One of the most intriguing ways that commercial developers of software can become more efficient is to reuse not only software but also best practices from the open-source movement. The open-source movement encompasses a wide collection of ideas, knowledge, techniques, and solutions. Commercial software vendors have an opportunity to both learn from the opensource community, as well as leverage...

Sustainability in Open Source Software Commons: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study of SourceForge Projects

GikiCLEF: Expectations and Lessons Learned

This overview paper is devoted to a critical assessment of GikiCLEF 2009, an evaluation contest specifically designed to expose and investigate cultural and linguistic issues in Wikipedia search, with eight participant systems and 17 runs. After providing a maximally short but self contained overview of the GikiCLEF task and participation, we present the open source SIGA system, and discuss, fo...