Caixa Mágica: crónica de un proyecto de colaboración ciudadana | Caixa Mágica: relato de um projeto de colaboração cidadã | Caixa Mágica: chronicle of a civic innovation project

RESUMEN Los laboratorios de innovación ciudadana están probando nuevas formas de construir conocimiento, reuniendo a personas de diferentes lugares, calificaciones y antecedentes para trabajar por períodos cortos en una iniciativa de interés comunitario. Esta crónica, construida por colaboradores de dos laboratorios, cuenta la historia del proyecto Caixa Mágica, que nace en el LabicBr en el 2015 y se va transformando a lo largo de otras reuniones. Muestra cómo los principios de la cultura libre, la ciencia abierta y desarrollo ágil, orgánicamente aplicados durante todo el proceso, hicieron posible el desarrollo colaborativo y la continuidad del proyecto después de los eventos.Palabras clave: Laboratorios Ciudadanos; Ciencia Abierta; Cultura Libre; Software Libre; Innovación Educativa.RESUMO Os laboratórios de inovação cidadã estão experimentando novas formas de construir conhecimento, reunindo pessoas de diferentes lugares, qualificações e origens sociaispara trabalhar por curtos períodos numa iniciativa de interesse comunitário. Este relato, construído por colaboradores de dois laboratórios, conta a história do projeto Caixa Mágica, nascido no LabicBr em 2015 e vai se transformando ao longo de outras reuniões. Mostra como os princípios da cultura livre, da cultura aberta e desenvolvimento agil, organicamente aplicados durante todo o processo, possibilitaram o desenvolvimento colaborativoe a continuidade do projetodepois dos eventos.Palavras-chave: Laboratórios Cidadãos; Ciência Aberta; Cultura Livre; Software Livre; Inovação Educativa.ABSTRACT Civic innovation laboratories have been testing new ways of building knowledge, bringing together people from different places, qualifications and backgrounds, to collaborate for a short period in a single initiative of community interest. This report, built by collaborators from two laboratories, recounts the trajectory of the Caixa Mágica (Magic Box) project, which was born in LabicBr in 2015, and was transformed through other meetings. It shows how principles like free culture, open science and agile development, applied in an organic way throughout this process, made possible the collaborative development and continuity of the project after the events were over.Keywords: Civic Laboratories; Open Science; Free Culture; Free Software; Educational Innovation.

Tools and Datasets for Mining Libre Software Repositories

Thanks to the open nature of libre (free, open source) software projects, researchers have gained access to a rich set of data related to various aspects of software development. Although it is usually publicly available on the Internet, obtaining and analyzing the data in a convenient way is not an easy task, and many considerations have to be taken into account. In this chapter we introduce the most relevant data sources that can be found in libre software projects and that are commonly studied by scholars: source code releases, source code management systems, mailing lists and issue (bug) tracking systems. The chapter also provides some advice on the problems that can be found when retrieving and preparing the data sources for a later analysis, as well as information about the tools and datasets that support these tasks.

Tools and Datasets for Mining Libre Software Repositories

Thanks to the open nature of libre (free, open source) software projects, researchers have gained access to a rich set of data related to various aspects of software development. Although it is usually publicly available on the Internet, obtaining and analyzing the data in a convenient way is not an easy task, and many considerations have to be taken into account. In this chapter we introduce the most relevant data sources that can be found in libre software projects and that are commonly studied by scholars: source code releases, source code management systems, mailing lists and issue (bug) tracking systems. The chapter also provides some advice on the problems that can be found when retrieving and preparing the data sources for a later analysis, as well as information about the tools and datasets that support these tasks.

Implications of FLOSS for Public Organizations

In the last years, free and open source software (also sometimes termed libre software) has gathered increasing interest, both from the business and academic worlds. As some projects in different application domains like most notably the operating system Linux together with the suite of GNU utilities, the office suites GNOME and KDE, Apache, sendmail, bind, and several programming languages have achieved huge success in their respective markets, both the adoption by commercial companies, and also the development of new business models by corporations both small and large like Netscape or IBM have increased. Given this situation, it did not take a long time for the discussion surrounding this new phenomenon to reach public organizations. Especially the most prominent example, the choice between a free operating system like GNU/Linux or a commercial system like Microsoft Windows has sparked interest in this new form of software, its legal and economic implications, and its new model of software development. In this article, these implications will be explored, explicitly not focusing solely on the Linux vs. Microsoft debate. To this end, an introduction to free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) and its concepts will be given, then different aspects of the relationship between FLOSS and public organizations, especially e-government, together with future trends will be discussed.

Weaving a Semantic Web Across OSS Repositories

Several public repositories and archives of “facts” about libre software projects, maintained either by open source communities or by research communities, have been flourishing over the Web in recent years. These have enabled new analysis and support for new quality assurance tasks. This paper presents some complementary existing tools, projects and models proposed both by OSS actors or research initiatives that are likely to lead to useful future developments in terms of study of the FLOSS phenomenon, and also to the very practitioners in the FLOSS development projects. A goal of the research conducted within the HELIOS project is to address bugs traceability issues. In this regard, the authors investigate the potential of using Semantic Web technologies in navigating between many different bugtracker systems scattered all over the open source ecosystem. By using Semantic Web techniques, it is possible to interconnect the databases containing data about open-source software projects development, which enables OSS partakers to identify resources, annotate them, and further interlink those using dedicated properties and collectively designing a distributed semantic graph.