Open Source Systems: Long-Term Sustainability: 8th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2012, Hammamet, Tunisia, September 10-13, 2012. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective....Pages 129-143
Designing Secure Systems Based on Open Architectures with Open Source and Closed Source Components....Pages 144-159
Using Multiple Case Studies to Analyse Open Source Software Business Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa....Pages 160-177
Exploring the Role of Commercial Stakeholders in Open Source Software Evolution....Pages 178-200
Exploring the Role of Outside Organizations in Free / Open Source Software Projects....Pages 201-215
Two Evolution Indicators for FOSS Projects....Pages 216-232
Open Source Migration in Greek Public Sector: A Feasibility Study....Pages 233-243
A Comprehensive Study of Software Forks: Dates, Reasons and Outcomes....Pages 1-14
A Model of Open Source Developer Foundations....Pages 15-28
Long-Term Sustainability of Open Source Software Communities beyond a Fork: A Case Study of LibreOffice....Pages 29-47
Step-by-Step Strategies and Case Studies for Embedded Software Companies to Adapt to the FOSS Ecosystem....Pages 48-60
Citizen Engineering: Evolving OSS Practices to Engineering Design and Analysis....Pages 61-77
Gender Differences in Early Free and Open Source Software Joining Process....Pages 78-93
Emerging Hackerspaces – Peer-Production Generation....Pages 94-111
Exploring the Barriers and Enablers to the Use of Open Educational Resources by University Academics in Africa....Pages 112-128
Free and Open Source Software Adoption in Emerging Markets: An Empirical Study in the Education Sector....Pages 244-249
Open-Source Technologies Realizing Social Networks: A Multiple Descriptive Case-Study....Pages 250-255
A Qualitative Method for Mining Open Source Software Repositories....Pages 256-261
The Impact of Formal QA Practices on FLOSS Communities – The Case of Mozilla....Pages 262-267
Do More Experienced Developers Introduce Fewer Bugs?....Pages 268-273
Perspectives on Code Forking and Sustainability in Open Source Software....Pages 274-279
Open Source Prediction Methods: A Systematic Literature Review....Pages 280-285
From Open Source Software to Open Source Hardware....Pages 286-291
Does OSS Affect E-Government Growth? An Econometric Analysis on the Impacting Factors....Pages 292-297
Open Source, Open Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights – A Lightning Talk....Pages 298-303
OSS Adoption in South Africa: Applying the TOE Model to a Case Study....Pages 304-309
Forking the Commons: Developmental Tensions and Evolutionary Patterns in Open Source Software....Pages 310-315
A Novel Application of Open Source Technologies to Measure Agile Software Development Process....Pages 316-321
A Linguistic Analysis on How Contributors Solve Software Problems in a Distributed Context....Pages 322-330
Examining Turnover in Open Source Software Projects Using Logistic Hierarchical Linear Modeling Approach....Pages 331-337
A Study on OSS Marketing and Communication Strategies....Pages 338-343
The Effect of Open Source Licensing on the Evolution of Business Strategy....Pages 344-349
Binoculars: Comprehending Open Source Projects through Graphs....Pages 350-355
OSSLI: Architecture Level Management of Open Source Software Legality Concerns....Pages 356-361
Hybrid Business Models in Software Product Industry: Patterns and Challenges....Pages 362-367
Two Modes of Product Development: Head-Oriented vs. Release-Oriented....Pages 368-370
OSS in 2012: A Long-Term Sustainable Alternative for Corporate IT....Pages 371-376
Discussion on the Problems to be Solved toward the Migration to OSS Productivity Software in the Business Enterprises....Pages 377-382
How Can Open Standards Be Effectively Implemented in Open Source?....Pages 383-388
Future Smart Metering Runs on Open Source –Challenges and the GuruxAMI Project....Pages 389-394
Open Source Software in Research and Development....Pages 395-395
Development Style of Open Source and Econmies of Connection....Pages 396-396
FLOSS Survey 2013? A Proposal for Comprehensive Survey on FLOSS Developers....Pages 397-397
FLOSS Project Registration Strategies....Pages 398-398
Using the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling as a Robust, Fully Functional, Actively Maintained, Open Source C++ Parser....Pages 399-399
FLOSS Education: Long-Term Sustainability....Pages 400-400
Developing Mobile Software with FLOSS....Pages 401-402
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