Monthly Archives: March 2009
CSMR – Day 3
| March 27, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
And so CSMR concludes. Still recovering from the conference dinner (surreally hosted in the Hotel Alcatraz, which used to be a prison — and that’s not a joke). Enjoyed it here, conversed with some really interesting chaps, and one or two personal heroes. Let me wrap up with some bite-sized snippets: Acceptance rate of papers:… read more
CSMR – Day 2
| March 26, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
CSMR 2009 soldiers on. Today’s keynote was delivered by Tibor Gyimothy which looked at software metrics from the developer’s point of view. He presented the results of a study where developers were surveyed for their opinions on various metrics. The developers were divided based upon such attributes as experience, platform knowledge (Java, C/C++, C#, SQL),… read more
Journal Publication Confirmed
| March 25, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News, Research |
Excellent. The journal publication I co-authored with Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff (“Identifying exogenous drivers and evolutionary stages in FLOSS projects”) has now been confirmed for publication in the May 2009 edition of Journal of Systems and Software. It is currently available online. read more
CSMR – Day 1
| March 25, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
Guten tag. How embarrassing. The weather in Kaiserslautern is bad, I’m an Englishman…. and I don’t have an umbrella. But at least the Fraunhofer IESE Centre is a wonderful environment. Which leads me to quickly express my admiration of the German approach to technical research and development. Briefly, there are four “actors” in their setup:… read more
Going to the CSMR Conference
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News, Research |
This year’s European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering is in Kaiserslautern, Germany. I’ll be there, but my fellow researchers in the Centre of Research on Open Source Software won’t because we’ve been accepted to so many different conferences we have to divide ourselves up because it’s the only way we can afford to attend… read more
Digital Archaeology
| March 10, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Research methods and tools |
Part of the use to which I’d like to put this blog is to disseminate information about research methods and tools. But before I start writing posts with involved details it’s probably prudent to present some sort of overview of the whole thing. Of course, there is no single method that is used by all… read more
Myths and Misconceptions: What Open Source ISN'T
| March 3, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Computer Floss series |
The Computer Floss series continues over at YouTube. Here’s what was talked about in episode 2, “Myths and Misconceptions”: A few myths and misconceptions have arisen over the years about what free and open source software actually is. This edition of Computer Floss addresses some of these and spells out what open source isn’t. Myth:… read more
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