Who is an open source software developer?

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert J. Dempsey ◽  
Debra Weiss ◽  
Paul Jones ◽  
Jane Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Developer ◽  
Open Source Software Developer

The Swarm Model in Open Source Software Developer Communities

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Cui ◽  
Justin Beaver ◽  
Everett Stiles ◽  
Laura Pullum ◽  
Brian Klump ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Developer ◽  
Open Source Software Developer

scholarly journals Using Open Source Software to Engage in Real-Life Problem Solving

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-211
Author(s):  
Stewart Adam
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Software Developer ◽  
Real Life Problem ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Open Source Software Developer

This paper reviews the impact of computers and technology on the learning process of a 17-year-old student. It highlights the key IT experiences that transformed a curious boy into an open source software developer—one with an opinion on teaching practices. In contrast to a culture of ownership and copyright, the paper acknowledges the importance of the concept of using, remixing and sharing information to meet the needs of every learner. This concept is described as creating the pedagogy needed to motivate and engage students in the classroom.

scholarly journals Data Set Failures and Intersectional Data

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Representative Sampling ◽  
Software Developer ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Demographic Survey ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Web

In 2016, a software developer named David and I met to discuss creating a quantitative demographic survey of the open source software community to which we were both long-time contributors. David and I did not know each other well, but shared a belief that our open source community (OSC, hereafter) was an unsafe place for anyone who did not identify as white, cisgendered, heterosexual and male. That lack of safety was further complicated by any one individual's distance from privileged modes of contribution. In OSC, developers who were on key Contribution Teams and regularly added code to the codebase were valued more highly than those who contributed documentation, user experience research, or quality assurance work. David asked "What if we made a survey that accounted for all of the ways that people make the web? Can we do it intersectionally? Can we do it the OSC way?" Over the following 18 months, David and I worked with a team of OSC community members on the creation, dissemination and analysis of a quantitative demographic survey of OSC. This survey was the first step in a project to create safer spaces within OSC for individuals from marginalized groups. Rather than this survey being an attempt to gather a representative sampling, it was part of a larger political project to increase diversity, inclusion and equity in our community.

scholarly journals A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson

Queue ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Margo Seltzer ◽  
Mike Olson ◽  
Kirk McCusick
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Production Quality ◽  
Software Developer ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Berkeley Db ◽  
Transactional Data

Kirk McKusick sat down with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson to discuss the history of Berkeley DB, for which they won the ACM Software System Award in 2021. Kirk McKusick has spent his career as a BSD and FreeBSD developer. Margo Seltzer has spent her career as a professor of computer science and as an entrepreneur of database software companies. Mike Olson started his career as a software developer and later started and managed several open-source software companies. Berkeley DB is a production-quality, scalable, NoSQL, Open Source platform for embedded transactional data management.

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