2.1 Research Information

We will be participating in UC Irvine's workshop on the future of open source research. The organizers asked participants to provide opinions on three research areas that warrant further attention. Here is our second one: 2. Improved Open Source Process and Tooling Quantitative analyses of ope...

We will be participating in the Computing Community Consortium's workshop on the future of open source research at UC Irvine. The organizers asked participants to provide opinions on three research areas that warrant further attention. Here is our first one: 1. Quantitative Analyses of Actual Pro...

SAP AG, the world's third largest software vendor, held its first (mostly internal) open source summit on Nov 11-12. Prof. Riehle as an invited speaker presented his analysis of "why open source is hard for closed source vendors." (The linked to presentation is a generic one without anything specifi...

For now, we are using Google Groups to communicate. The following lists are available: Public Access Lists osr-announce: For announcements by the group (low traffic, announcement-only) osr-discuss: If you would like to comment on announcements (open for all, but on topic only) Rest...

The overarching goal of our group's research is to comprehensively define "the next big" software development method. To that end, we will work to unify agile software development methods with open source software development. Agile methods can cope with changing requirements but don't scale up well...