Open Source Systems: Long-Term Sustainability

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

      2. A Model of Open Source Developer Foundations

         • Dirk Riehle, Sebastian Berschneider

         Pages 15-28

      3. Long-Term Sustainability of Open Source Software Communities beyond a Fork: A Case Study of LibreOffice

         • Jonas Gamalielsson, Björn Lundell

         Pages 29-47

   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

      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

      3. Gender Differences in Early Free and Open Source Software Joining Process

         • Victor Kuechler, Claire Gilbertson, Carlos Jensen

         Pages 78-93

   3. Open Education and Peer-Production Models

      1. Emerging Hackerspaces – Peer-Production Generation

         • Jarkko Moilanen

         Pages 94-111

      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

   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

      2. Designing Secure Systems Based on Open Architectures with Open Source and Closed Source Components

         • Walt Scacchi, Thomas A. Alspaugh

         Pages 144-159

   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

      2. Exploring the Role of Commercial Stakeholders in Open Source Software Evolution

         • Andrea Capiluppi, Klaas-Jan Stol, Cornelia Boldyreff

         Pages 178-200

      3. Exploring the Role of Outside Organizations in Free / Open Source Software Projects

         • Darren Forrest, Carlos Jensen, Nitin Mohan, Jennifer Davidson

         Pages 201-215

   6. Adoption and Evolution of OSS

      1. Two Evolution Indicators for FOSS Projects

         • Etiel Petrinja, Giancarlo Succi

         Pages 216-232

      2. Open Source Migration in Greek Public Sector: A Feasibility Study

         • Androklis Mavridis, Dimitrios Fotakidis, Ioannis Stamelos

         Pages 233-243

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

      2. Open-Source Technologies Realizing Social Networks: A Multiple Descriptive Case-Study

         • Jose Teixeira

         Pages 250-255

      3. A Qualitative Method for Mining Open Source Software Repositories

         • John Noll, Dominik Seichter, Sarah Beecham

         Pages 256-261

   2. OSS Quality

      1. The Impact of Formal QA Practices on FLOSS Communities – The Case of Mozilla

         • Adina Barham

         Pages 262-267

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.

• FLOSS
• OSS education
• mobile OSS
• social networks
• software-based services

• Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  Imed Hammouda, Tommi Mikkonen

• University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

  Björn Lundell

• Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine, USA

  Walt Scacchi

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