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
    PDF

  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
        PDF
      2. A Model of Open Source Developer Foundations
        Dirk Riehle, Sebastian Berschneider
        Pages 15-28
        PDF
      3. Long-Term Sustainability of Open Source Software Communities beyond a Fork: A Case Study of LibreOffice
        Jonas Gamalielsson, Björn Lundell
        Pages 29-47
        PDF

    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
        PDF
      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
        PDF
      3. Gender Differences in Early Free and Open Source Software Joining Process
        Victor Kuechler, Claire Gilbertson, Carlos Jensen
        Pages 78-93
        PDF

    3. Open Education and Peer-Production Models

      1. Emerging Hackerspaces – Peer-Production Generation
        Jarkko Moilanen
        Pages 94-111
        PDF
      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
        PDF

    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
        PDF
      2. Designing Secure Systems Based on Open Architectures with Open Source and Closed Source Components
        Walt Scacchi, Thomas A. Alspaugh
        Pages 144-159
        PDF

    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
        PDF
      2. Exploring the Role of Commercial Stakeholders in Open Source Software Evolution
        Andrea Capiluppi, Klaas-Jan Stol, Cornelia Boldyreff
        Pages 178-200
        PDF
      3. Exploring the Role of Outside Organizations in Free / Open Source Software Projects
        Darren Forrest, Carlos Jensen, Nitin Mohan, Jennifer Davidson
        Pages 201-215
        PDF

    6. Adoption and Evolution of OSS

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

  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
        PDF
      2. Open-Source Technologies Realizing Social Networks: A Multiple Descriptive Case-Study
        Jose Teixeira
        Pages 250-255
        PDF
      3. A Qualitative Method for Mining Open Source Software Repositories
        John Noll, Dominik Seichter, Sarah Beecham
        Pages 256-261
        PDF

    2. OSS Quality

      1. The Impact of Formal QA Practices on FLOSS Communities – The Case of Mozilla
        Adina Barham
        Pages 262-267
        PDF

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