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Open Source Systems: Long-Term Sustainability

8th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2012, Hammamet, Tunisia, September 10-13, 2012. Proceedings

  • Imed Hammouda
  • Björn Lundell
  • Tommi Mikkonen
  • Walt Scacchi
Conference proceedings OSS 2012

Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 378)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Full Papers

    1. Collaboration and Forks in OSS Projects

      1. A Comprehensive Study of Software Forks: Dates, Reasons and Outcomes
        Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona
        Pages 1-14
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      2. A Model of Open Source Developer Foundations
        Dirk Riehle, Sebastian Berschneider
        Pages 15-28
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      3. Long-Term Sustainability of Open Source Software Communities beyond a Fork: A Case Study of LibreOffice
        Jonas Gamalielsson, Björn Lundell
        Pages 29-47
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    2. Community Issues

      1. Step-by-Step Strategies and Case Studies for Embedded Software Companies to Adapt to the FOSS Ecosystem
        Suhyun Kim, Jaehyun Yoo, Myunghwa Lee
        Pages 48-60
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      2. Citizen Engineering: Evolving OSS Practices to Engineering Design and Analysis
        Zhi Zhai, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Ashan Kareem, David Hachen, Greg Madey
        Pages 61-77
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      3. Gender Differences in Early Free and Open Source Software Joining Process
        Victor Kuechler, Claire Gilbertson, Carlos Jensen
        Pages 78-93
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    3. Open Education and Peer-Production Models

      1. Emerging Hackerspaces – Peer-Production Generation
        Jarkko Moilanen
        Pages 94-111
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      2. Exploring the Barriers and Enablers to the Use of Open Educational Resources by University Academics in Africa
        Tanya Percy, Jean-Paul Van Belle
        Pages 112-128
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    4. Integration and Architecture

      1. OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective
        Claudia Ayala, Daniela S. Cruzes, Anh Duc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi, Xavier Franch, Martin Höst et al.
        Pages 129-143
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      2. Designing Secure Systems Based on Open Architectures with Open Source and Closed Source Components
        Walt Scacchi, Thomas A. Alspaugh
        Pages 144-159
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    5. Business Ecosystems

      1. Using Multiple Case Studies to Analyse Open Source Software Business Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
        Sulayman K. Sowe, Maurice McNaughton
        Pages 160-177
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      2. Exploring the Role of Commercial Stakeholders in Open Source Software Evolution
        Andrea Capiluppi, Klaas-Jan Stol, Cornelia Boldyreff
        Pages 178-200
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      3. Exploring the Role of Outside Organizations in Free / Open Source Software Projects
        Darren Forrest, Carlos Jensen, Nitin Mohan, Jennifer Davidson
        Pages 201-215
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    6. Adoption and Evolution of OSS

      1. Two Evolution Indicators for FOSS Projects
        Etiel Petrinja, Giancarlo Succi
        Pages 216-232
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      2. Open Source Migration in Greek Public Sector: A Feasibility Study
        Androklis Mavridis, Dimitrios Fotakidis, Ioannis Stamelos
        Pages 233-243
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  3. Lightning Talks

    1. Community Issues

      1. Free and Open Source Software Adoption in Emerging Markets: An Empirical Study in the Education Sector
        G. R. Gangadharan, Martin Butler
        Pages 244-249
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      2. Open-Source Technologies Realizing Social Networks: A Multiple Descriptive Case-Study
        Jose Teixeira
        Pages 250-255
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      3. A Qualitative Method for Mining Open Source Software Repositories
        John Noll, Dominik Seichter, Sarah Beecham
        Pages 256-261
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    2. OSS Quality

      1. The Impact of Formal QA Practices on FLOSS Communities – The Case of Mozilla
        Adina Barham
        Pages 262-267
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      2. Do More Experienced Developers Introduce Fewer Bugs?
        Daniel Izquierdo-Cortázar, Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona
        Pages 268-273
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      3. Perspectives on Code Forking and Sustainability in Open Source Software
        Linus Nyman, Tommi Mikkonen, Juho Lindman, Martin Fougère
        Pages 274-279
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      4. Open Source Prediction Methods: A Systematic Literature Review
        M. M. Mahbubul Syeed, Terhi Kilamo, Imed Hammouda, Tarja Systä
        Pages 280-285
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    3. OSS in Different Domains

      1. From Open Source Software to Open Source Hardware
        Robert Viseur
        Pages 286-291
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      2. Does OSS Affect E-Government Growth? An Econometric Analysis on the Impacting Factors
        Spyridoula Lakka, Teta Stamati, Draculis Martakos
        Pages 292-297
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      3. Open Source, Open Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights – A Lightning Talk
        Terhi Kilamo, Imed Hammouda, Ville Kairamo, Petri Räsänen, Jukka P. Saarinen
        Pages 298-303
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    4. Development Practices

      1. OSS Adoption in South Africa: Applying the TOE Model to a Case Study
        Jean-Paul Van Belle, Mark Reed
        Pages 304-309
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      2. Forking the Commons: Developmental Tensions and Evolutionary Patterns in Open Source Software
        Mehmet Gençer, Bülent Özel
        Pages 310-315
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      3. A Novel Application of Open Source Technologies to Measure Agile Software Development Process
        Luis Corral, Andrea Janes, Tadas Remencius, Juri Strumpflohner, Jelena Vlasenko
        Pages 316-321
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      4. A Linguistic Analysis on How Contributors Solve Software Problems in a Distributed Context
        Héla Masmoudi, Imed Boughzala
        Pages 322-330
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    5. Business Ecosystems

      1. Examining Turnover in Open Source Software Projects Using Logistic Hierarchical Linear Modeling Approach
        Pratyush N Sharma, John Hulland, Sherae Daniel
        Pages 331-337
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      2. A Study on OSS Marketing and Communication Strategies
        Vieri del Bianco, Luigi Lavazza, Valentina Lenarduzzi, Sandro Morasca, Davide Taibi, Davide Tosi
        Pages 338-343
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      3. The Effect of Open Source Licensing on the Evolution of Business Strategy
        Tetsuo Noda, Terutaka Tansho, Shane Coughlan
        Pages 344-349
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  4. Tool Demonstration Papers

    1. Binoculars: Comprehending Open Source Projects through Graphs
      M. M. Mahbubul Syeed
      Pages 350-355
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    2. OSSLI: Architecture Level Management of Open Source Software Legality Concerns
      Alexander Lokhman, Antti Luoto, Salum Abdul-Rahman, Imed Hammouda
      Pages 356-361
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  5. Short Industry Papers

    1. Product Development

      1. Hybrid Business Models in Software Product Industry: Patterns and Challenges
        Swanand J. Deodhar, Kulbhushan C. Saxena, Mikko Ruohonen
        Pages 362-367
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      2. Two Modes of Product Development: Head-Oriented vs. Release-Oriented
        Masayuki Hatta
        Pages 368-370
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    2. Industrial Experiences

      1. OSS in 2012: A Long-Term Sustainable Alternative for Corporate IT
        Didier Durand, Jean-Luc Vuattoux, Pierre-Jean Ditscheid
        Pages 371-376
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      2. Discussion on the Problems to be Solved toward the Migration to OSS Productivity Software in the Business Enterprises
        Jun Iio, Tomotaka Ogawa
        Pages 377-382
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      3. How Can Open Standards Be Effectively Implemented in Open Source?
        Björn Lundell, Admir Abdurahmanovic, Stefan Andersson, Erik Bergström, Jonas Feist, Jonas Gamalielsson et al.
        Pages 383-388
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      4. Future Smart Metering Runs on Open Source –Challenges and the GuruxAMI Project
        Mikko Kurunsaari
        Pages 389-394
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  6. Posters

    1. Open Source Software in Research and Development
      Michael Adeyeye, Oluyomi Kabiawu
      Pages 395-395
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    2. Development Style of Open Source and Econmies of Connection
      Keisuke Tanihana, Tetsuo Noda
      Pages 396-396
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    3. FLOSS Survey 2013? A Proposal for Comprehensive Survey on FLOSS Developers
      Masayuki Hatta
      Pages 397-397
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    4. FLOSS Project Registration Strategies
      Alexander Lokhman
      Pages 398-398
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    5. Using the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling as a Robust, Fully Functional, Actively Maintained, Open Source C++ Parser
      Danila Piatov, Andrea Janes, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi
      Pages 399-399
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  7. Workshops

    1. FLOSS Education: Long-Term Sustainability
      Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Wouter Tebbens
      Pages 400-400
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    2. Developing Mobile Software with FLOSS
      Anthony I. Wasserman
      Pages 401-402
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  8. Back Matter
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About these proceedings

Introduction

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2012, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in September 2012. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 17 lightning talks, 2 tool demonstration papers, 6 short industry papers, 5 posters and 2 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collaboration and forks in OSS projects, community issues, open education and peer-production models, integration and architecture, business ecosystems, adoption and evolution of OSS, OSS quality, OSS in different domains, product development, and industrial experiences.

Keywords

FLOSS OSS education mobile OSS social networks software-based services

Editors and affiliations

  • Imed Hammouda
    • 1
  • Björn Lundell
    • 2
  • Tommi Mikkonen
    • 1
  • Walt Scacchi
    • 3
  1. 1.Tampere University of TechnologyTampereFinland
  2. 2.University of SkövdeSkövdeSweden
  3. 3.Institute for Software ResearchUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33442-9
  • Copyright Information IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2012
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-33441-2
  • Online ISBN 978-3-642-33442-9
  • Series Print ISSN 1868-4238
  • Series Online ISSN 1861-2288
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