Feb

12

FOSS Workshop Day 3 Wrap-up

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The Free/Open Source Software workshop wrapped up today.  Discussion focused on a number of topics, including:

- Translation into other domains of software

- Software engineering practice

- Collaboration issues in FOSS

- Learning and education challenges/opportunities

- Evolution of products, projects, practices and processes

- Research infrastructures

A report from the workshop will be developed in the coming weeks and posted on the CCC Web site.

John L. King, CCC Council Liaison

Feb

11

FOSS Workshop, Day 2

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The attendees at the CCC-supported workshop on Free/Open Source Software met today at UC Irvine’s Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences to work in break-out groups on a refined classification scheme for open-source software development.   The group will work tomorrow morning to synthesize the results of today’s efforts into elements that can be reported out.

John L. King, CCC Council liaison

Feb

10

FOSS Workshop Kicks Off: Day 1

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Forty-five people met today in Newport Beach, CA for the first day of a three-day workshop supported by the CCC on Free/Open Source Software.  For more background information, see http://www.cra.org/ccc/foss.php  (Note that about five participants who were supposed to come were snowed in by the big storms in the east, and couldn’t make it.)

Today’s discussion was structured around four perspectives on FOSS, with moderators, main presenters, and discussants:

Users/Producers: Moderator — Greg Madey (Notre Dame University); Main Presenter — Ralph Morelli (Trinity College); Discussants — Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), John Wallin (George Mason University).

Human-Centered Computing: Moderator — Walt Scacchi (UC Irvine); Main Presenter: Chris Kelty (UCLA); Discussants — Charles Schweik (UMass Amherst), Chris Kelty (UCLA).

Social/Behavioral/Economic: Moderator — Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University); Main Presenter — Les Gasser of University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign; Discussants — Kalle Lyytinen (Case-Western), Shobha Chengalur-Smith (UC Irvine), Pat Wangstrum (IBM Research).

Software Engineering:  Moderator — Megan Squire (Elon University); Main Presenter Tony Wasserman (Carnegie-Mellon Silicon Valley); Discussants — Prem Devanbu (UC Davis),  Audris Mockus (AVAYA Labs).

The Twitter stream is #foss2010   Follow along!

John L. King, CCC Council liaison

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