Computer Floss » Savannah http://computerfloss.com Delightful digital distractions in free/libre/open source software Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:54:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 An Open Source Eco-System? /2010/09/an-open-source-eco-system/ /2010/09/an-open-source-eco-system/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:48:17 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=406 To summarise the prior writings from my doctoral thesis: I’ve shown how there are both notable differences and similarities between certain measures of FLOSS repositories (such as number of contributors attracted, rate of contributions, complexity control work, etc.) The pattern of similarities and differences that emerged clearly differentiated one group (containing Debian, GNOME, and KDE) […]

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Continuing the Empirical Results: Anti-Regressive Work /2010/04/continuing-the-empirical-results-anti-regressive-work/ /2010/04/continuing-the-empirical-results-anti-regressive-work/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:34:35 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=404 It has been a while since I wrote about my research into FLOSS, for which there are a few reasons. When last I wrote I was approaching my PhD defence, and for the whole PhD process to come to an end I had to wait until January this year, when my thesis was officially approved. […]

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The Six-Way Epic: Digging Further into FLOSS Repositories /2009/09/digging-further-into-floss-repositories/ /2009/09/digging-further-into-floss-repositories/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:06:57 +0000 http://floss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/?p=233 Not too long ago, I announced the publishing of my first journal article co-authored with Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff. My mother was very proud — even if she did not understand a single word of it. I will give a brief summary of the article in this post, and if I succeed in whetting […]

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