This study applies business intelligence to Automotive Grade Linux, offering a data-driven view of its software production system. By analyzing activity, code review, and delivery performance, it shows how descriptive analytics can guide improvement in complex open source ecosystems.
Category: communities
Open Source Communities Are Outstanding Learning Environments
Open source communities are outstanding learning environments. By contributing, you learn actively, get real feedback, and grow faster than in most companies. If you want to take control of your career, start with open source.
From Theory to Practice: Leveraging the Virtuous Open Source Cycle for Long-Term Success
Learn how to apply the virtuous open source cycle model in practice. Learn to design contribution and return paths, measure value, reduce friction, and sustain open source investment successfully. 1. Introduction This is the second article in a series about the virtuous open source cycle model. The first article explained the basic model, showing how … Continue reading From Theory to Practice: Leveraging the Virtuous Open Source Cycle for Long-Term Success
Minimise branding-related risks when your company has a commercial and an open source profile
I am not a branding expert, but my journey through numerous long-term open-source projects and collaborations with marketing departments and professionals has allowed me to learn some simple but valuable lessons in this field. I would like to describe some of them in this blog post. So, what exactly is a brand and how do … Continue reading Minimise branding-related risks when your company has a commercial and an open source profile
Sponsored vs supported
Probably the most relevant non technical action that a community executes is events. Most mature communities organize one or several big events in different part of the world with different goals, but one of them is common in every single case: engagement needs face to face relations. We are humans....after all.In order to organize these … Continue reading Sponsored vs supported
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (VII): activities
This is the seventh post of the Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities series. In order to fully understand this one, please consider reading the previous ones. p, li { white-space: pre-wra There are several kind of activities that can be very productive and aligned with the goals of the project. We … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (VII): activities
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (VI): organization
Please consider reading previous post of the Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities series:Introduction.Root article (you can access the rest of the posts from this one).This project must have a legal entity that support the activity it will generate. That legal entity must be as flexible as possible. In Spain, for example, it would … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (VI): organization
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (V): services
Since this is the fifth post of the Building Innovation Nodes Through Free Software Communities, I strongly recommend you to read the previous four (I, II, III and IV) This post will explain my ideas about what are the basic services that the initiative should provide so Local Free Software Communities (LFSC) and local player … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (V): services
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (IV): localization/facilities
Please keep in mind that this is the fourth of a series of post. Please read previous ones ( I, II and III) before the following. The venue is very important in order to be successful. I suggest to launch the project in a city with the following characteristics:Big not not too much, so activities … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (IV): localization/facilities
Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (III): participants
This is the third post of this serie. Please read the first two (I and II) before reading this one. A.- ParticipantsAs mentioned in the previous post, the participants in a project like the one we are describing can be organized in three different groups:1.- SourceThere are the organizations which represent the innovation source, that … Continue reading Building innovation nodes through Free Software Communities (III): participants
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