Producing Open Source Software
Producing Open Source Software

Author: Karl Fogel

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2005-10-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0596552998

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The corporate market is now embracing free, "open source" software like never before, as evidenced by the recent success of the technologies underlying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Each is the result of a publicly collaborative process among numerous developers who volunteer their time and energy to create better software. The truth is, however, that the overwhelming majority of free software projects fail. To help you beat the odds, O'Reilly has put together Producing Open Source Software, a guide that recommends tried and true steps to help free software developers work together toward a common goal. Not just for developers who are considering starting their own free software project, this book will also help those who want to participate in the process at any level. The book tackles this very complex topic by distilling it down into easily understandable parts. Starting with the basics of project management, it details specific tools used in free software projects, including version control, IRC, bug tracking, and Wikis. Author Karl Fogel, known for his work on CVS and Subversion, offers practical advice on how to set up and use a range of tools in combination with open mailing lists and archives. He also provides several chapters on the essentials of recruiting and motivating developers, as well as how to gain much-needed publicity for your project. While managing a team of enthusiastic developers -- most of whom you've never even met -- can be challenging, it can also be fun. Producing Open Source Software takes this into account, too, as it speaks of the sheer pleasure to be had from working with a motivated team of free software developers.

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software
Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Author: Joseph Feller

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780262062466

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Leading Free and Open Source software researchers and analysts consider the status of the open source revolution and its effect on industry and society.

Open Source Software Management A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
Open Source Software Management A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

Author: Gerardus Blokdyk

Publisher: 5starcooks

Published: 2019-11-17

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780655945000

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Marketing budgets are tighter, consumers are more skeptical, and social media has changed forever the way we talk about Open Source Software Management, how do you gain traction? Who is responsible for ensuring appropriate resources (time, people and money) are allocated to Open Source Software Management? How did the Open Source Software Management manager receive input to the development of a Open Source Software Management improvement plan and the estimated completion dates/times of each activity? How do you manage and improve your Open Source Software Management work systems to deliver customer value and achieve organizational success and sustainability? What are the Open Source Software Management resources needed? This exclusive Open Source Software Management self-assessment will make you the established Open Source Software Management domain authority by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Open Source Software Management challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Open Source Software Management work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Open Source Software Management task and that every Open Source Software Management outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Open Source Software Management costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Open Source Software Management advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Open Source Software Management essentials are covered, from every angle: the Open Source Software Management self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Open Source Software Management outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Open Source Software Management practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Open Source Software Management are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Open Source Software Management self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Open Source Software Management Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Beginning Git and GitHub
Beginning Git and GitHub

Author: Mariot Tsitoara

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2019-11-30

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1484253132

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Learn the fundamentals of version control through step-by-step tutorials that will teach you the ins-and-outs of Git. This book is your complete guide to how Git and GitHub work in a professional team environment. Divided into three parts – Version Control, Project Management and Teamwork – this book reveals what waits for you in the real world and how to resolve the problems you may run into. Once past the basics of Git, you'll see how to manage a software project, and finally how to utilize Git and GithHub to work effectively as a team. You'll examine how to plan, follow and execute a project with GitHub, and then apply those concepts to real-world situations. Workaround the pitfalls that most programmers fall into when driving a project with Git by using proven tactics to avoid them. You will also be taught the easiest and quickest ways to resolve merge conflicts. A lot of modern books on Git don’t go into depth about non-technical topics. Beginning Git and GitHub will help you cover all the bases right at the start of your career. What You'll Learn Review basic and advanced concepts of GitApply Project Management skills using GitHub Solve conflicts or, ideally, avoid them altogetherUse advanced concepts for a more boosted workflow Who This book Is For New developers, developers that have never worked in a team environment before, developers with basic knowledge of Git or GitHub, or anyone who works with text documents.

Version Control with Git
Version Control with Git

Author: Jon Loeliger

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2012-08-14

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1449345042

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Get up to speed on Git for tracking, branching, merging, and managing code revisions. Through a series of step-by-step tutorials, this practical guide takes you quickly from Git fundamentals to advanced techniques, and provides friendly yet rigorous advice for navigating the many functions of this open source version control system. This thoroughly revised edition also includes tips for manipulating trees, extended coverage of the reflog and stash, and a complete introduction to the GitHub repository. Git lets you manage code development in a virtually endless variety of ways, once you understand how to harness the system’s flexibility. This book shows you how. Learn how to use Git for several real-world development scenarios Gain insight into Git’s common-use cases, initial tasks, and basic functions Use the system for both centralized and distributed version control Learn how to manage merges, conflicts, patches, and diffs Apply advanced techniques such as rebasing, hooks, and ways to handle submodules Interact with Subversion (SVN) repositories—including SVN to Git conversions Navigate, use, and contribute to open source projects though GitHub

The Complete Guide to Open Scholarship
The Complete Guide to Open Scholarship

Author: Victoria Martin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-05-24

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 Offers librarians an authoritative overview of the full spectrum of significant issues and controversies related to open scholarship in a candid and fair-minded manner. There has long been a debate about openness in scholarship, and even the term itself continues to be debated. Openness is a complex and multidimensional concept, and its nature in scholarship continually evolves. One of the hindrances to the transition to greater openness in academia is this lack of clear understanding about how it fits into the practice of scholarly communication. To ensure that librarians as knowledge managers can better educate scholars about the benefits and challenges of open scholarship, Victoria Martin's The Complete Guide to Open Scholarship brings clarity to the concept of openness, tests assumptions concerning it, and strikes the right balance between breaking down complex ideas into simpler ones and honoring the reader's intelligence and previous knowledge of the subject. Readers will learn the history of openness in scholarship as well as several ways in which openness can be perceived. Drawing on specific examples, Martin discusses the most prominent scholarly models based on openness, barriers to openness, concerns about openness in scholarship, and the future of open scholarship.

Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling Land and Water Resources
Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling Land and Water Resources

Author: Pravat Kumar Shit

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1000401448

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The wide range of challenges in studying Earth system dynamics due to uncertainties in climate change and complex interference from human activities is creating difficulties in managing land and water resources and ensuring their sustainable use. Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling Land and Water Resources brings together real-world case studies accurately surveyed and assessed through spatial modeling. The book focuses on the effectiveness of combining remote sensing, geographic information systems, and R. The use of open source software for different spatial modeling cases in various fields, along with the use of remote sensing and geographic information systems, will aid researchers, students, and practitioners to understand better the phenomena and the predictions by future analyses for problem-solving and decision-making.

Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture Management
Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture Management

Author: Jörg Ziemann

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-22

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 3030967344

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This textbook provides a comprehensive, holistic, scientifically precise, and practically relevant description of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). Based on state-of-the-art concepts, it also addresses current trends like disruptive digitization or agile methods. The book is structured in five chapters. The first chapter offers a comprehensive overview of EAM. It addresses questions like: what does EAM mean, what is the history of EAM, why do enterprises need EAM, what are its goals, and how is it related to digitalization? It also includes a short overview of essential EAM standards and literature. The second chapter provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture (EA). It starts with clarifying basic terminology and the difference between EA and EAM. It also gives a short summary of existing EA frameworks and methods for structuring the digital ecosystem into layers and views. The third chapter addresses the strategic and tactical context of the EAM capability in an enterprise. It defines essential terms and parameters in the context of enterprise strategy and tactics as well as the operative, organizational context of EAM. The fourth chapter specifies the detailed goals, processes, functions, artifacts, roles and tools of EAM, building the basis for an EAM process framework that provides a comprehensive overview of EAM processes and functions. Closing the circle, the last chapter describes how to evaluate EAM in an enterprise. It starts by laying out core terminology, like “metric” and “strategic performance measurement system” and ends with a framework that integrates the various measuring areas in the context of EA and EAM. This textbook focuses on two groups: First, EAM scholars, ie bachelor or master students of Business Information Systems, Business Administration or Computer Science. And second, EAM practitioners working in the field of IT strategy or EA who need a reliable, scientifically solid, and practically proven state-of-the-art description of essential EAM methods.

Acquisitions and Open Source Software Development
Acquisitions and Open Source Software Development

Author: Michael Vetter

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 3658350849

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Participation of firms in Open Source Software (OSS) development is steadily increasing. In fact, a substantial part of OSS projects today are developed in informal collaboration between firms and a community of voluntary contributors. As more and more firms are active in OSS, acquisitions of firms active in OSS development occur increasingly often. Yet, despite the economic and practical importance of OSS, research has so far overlooked this phenomenon. This dissertation explores this phenomenon of acquisitions of firms active in OSS development. Michael Vetter examines the role of OSS in the pre-acquisition phase and the impact of acquisitions on OSS development in the post-acquisition phase. Using qualitative and quantitative research methods, the author examines acquisition motives, acquisition likelihood, timing of acquisitions, and outcomes of acquisitions and discuss mechanisms behind variations across acquisitions.The findings from the studies contribute to research on acquisitions and OSS development while also providing insights into how to leverage OSS in target search, selection and evaluation processes as well as how to effectively manage acquisitions of firms active in OSS and the communities around them.