15 Dec 2017 | 17 mins read
Tags: inner-source 
Inner source concerns the use of open source development practices inside of the organizational walls of a company. Or using the terms of
Eric Raymond, building a bazaar inside of the Cathedral
(Wesselius, 2008).
Read more... 23 Nov 2017 | 14 mins read
Tags: contribution-strategy 
In this post I’m going to present a decision-support process to help answer the question
what you should share and contribute as open source, and
when. This process is a product of a joint research collaboration between
our research group at
Lund University together with the Open Source Program office at
Sony Mobile in Lund, Sweden. The full paper is available as open access
(Linåker, Munir, Wnuk, & Mols, 2018) and free to
download. The scope of this post will be limited to describing the process, while future posts will provide in-depth examples.
Read more... 13 Nov 2017 | 5 mins read
Tags: linux-foundation • conference • community-strategy 
I attended the
Open Source Summit Europe a couple of weeks ago and thought I’d give a short summary of my key takeaways.
Read more... 09 Nov 2017 | 1 min read 
I’ve been doing research now for about three years, and I can tell you, time flies when you’re having fun! Doing a Ph.D. enables you with a lot of freedom to explore and investigate a given topic. Aligning with my passion for open source, for me that topic is how companies should work with their open source strategy, answering questions such as “what should we contribute/open-source?”, and “how should we invest and engage with the communities?”.
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