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Evaluating Software Engineering Processes in Commercial and Community Open Source Projects
White Papers This paper describe a current study for obtaining information about management of commercial and community open source projects. Leaders of more than 75 open source projects have been interviewed and surveyed.
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
IT pros 'must put something back'
News A national initiative to encourage IT professionals to get involved in community projects was launched on Friday. The longer term goal is for these activities to come together at an annual conference with awards for the most innovative and...
[November 11, 2002, 10:35]
Improving Verification, Validation, and Test of the Linux Kernel: The Linux Stabilization Project
White Papers Larger projects depend upon a community of users to find and fix problems through use rather than disciplined test methods. Small projects tend to have virtually no testing performed by anyone other than the author of the program.
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
Preliminary Evidence on Firms' Participation in Open Source Projects: Reflections Upon a Tentative Research Agenda
White Papers This paper contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the role and the activities of software houses in community developed projects. The findings show how different today's OS movement is from its origins and how important...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Open-source group broadens its reach
News The Eclipse development tools consortium gained momentum on Monday with the announcement of 13 members to its board of stewards and the introduction of three new open-source projects. The consortium on Monday is introducing a project to add the...
[December 16, 2002, 15:44]
IBM, Harvard tap grid computing for solar-cell study
News Existing World Community Grid projects are aimed at developing more nutritious rice, as well as conducting cancer and AIDS research. The World Community Grid is tailored to public and not-for-profit organisations, but IBM has a number of projects...
[December 8, 2008, 14:42]
Oracle: Corporations not communities key to open source success
News Open source projects need big companies to thrive, Oracle's chief executive Larry Ellison reportedly said at a conference last week. He also claimed that the success of open source projects is dependent on the support of large IT companies.
[March 7, 2006, 9:20]
Agenda set for rural broadband push
News Speakers at the event will include representatives from the Radiocommunications Agency -- reflecting ABC's belief that wireless is the key to closing the broadband divide -- the Broadband Stakeholder Group, several telecoms firms, and a selection...
[June 6, 2003, 15:20]
Microsoft founds and funds open-source forum
News The CodePlex Foundation was created as a forum in which open-source communities and the software-development community can come together with the shared goal of increasing participation in open-source community projects," said a statement on the...
[September 11, 2009, 15:20]
Linux developers warned to watch their backs
News In a presentation at Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide, specialist Australian IT lawyer Jeremy Malcolm said that while it was widely anticipated in the open-source community that SCO's lawsuit against IBM for alleged copyright infringement would...
[January 15, 2004, 8:40]
eBay dips a toe into open source waters
News At the Web site, dubbed eBay Community Codebase, developers will have access to source code for various eBay and PayPal tools and sample applications, as well as provide a way to more easily collaborate on projects with others.
[June 21, 2005, 9:10]
'Securipedia' wiki launched
News Organisations and individuals can use Securipedia to pool information on policy, research or projects," said Intellect programme manager Joel Grundy in a statement. Government reports, policies and initiatives will be included in the wiki, as will...
[September 30, 2008, 15:43]
Linux community upset by desktop deals
News The moves could return consumers to a choice of Linux distributions from smaller companies -- such as Mandrake, Xandros or Lindows -- or from community projects such as Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and Slackware.
[November 5, 2003, 9:00]
Microsoft offers to help Firefox into Vista
News He stressed that Microsoft was "committed to evolving our thinking beyond commercial companies to include open source projects" in the Vista project. He stressed that his contribution to Vista is the "non-trivial effort of getting slots for non...
[August 22, 2006, 13:40]
Birmingham considers Linux extension
News One piece of work the council has undertaken since the autumn is to roll out Linux desktops in a number of city community projects. Aside from the community projects, Birmingham's current open-source footprint covers 200 PCs in the main city...
[March 5, 2007, 8:37]
Nominet to fund 'worthwhile' UK internet projects
News Online safety for children is one suggestion, as are community projects to increase internet access and use, and user training and education. We now have a growing, successful .uk registry and the ability to fund worthwhile projects.
[January 17, 2008, 14:27]
Sun looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris
News The question is which open source licence should govern the building of projects out of the company's technology crown jewels. Now, though, Sun likes the idea of governing both projects with the upcoming GPL version 3, chief executive Jonathan...
[February 9, 2007, 15:22]
Fedora seeks women developers
News Other open source projects have tried to encourage more women to get involved in programming. In 2005, Apache Software Foundation set up a new mailing list in the hope of increasing the participation of women in its open-source projects, while in...
[July 31, 2006, 17:15]
Australia brings telecoms to indigenous communities
News The projects are focused on advancing web skills, training, creating indigenous-language online content, including business portals, setting up videoconferencing facilities and installing community internet-access programmes.
[September 10, 2007, 12:08]
JBoss moves up the stack
News Labourey said that when growing the stack the company either does in-house development or uses projects that are already available in the open-source community. Van der Aalst said that JBoss may also face competition from within the open-source...
[October 18, 2004, 12:10]
