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Hi there! I'm a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University living in Malmö, Sweden. This website provides my effort in promoting open science through the sharing of talks, publications, and writings I've done through the years :)

Recent blog posts


Everything from notes and thoughts, to summaries of talks, papers and reports. Some in English, some in Swedish pending the context :)

Health Check-ups on OSS Software Projects: Managing Risks while Promoting (Re)use

7 minute read

Getting an overview of Open Source Software (OSS) intake (including upstream dependencies) is a challenge as consumption is ever-growing. Each OSS component comes with a risk in terms of its ability to stay maintained long-term, with high quality and without interruption. Analyzing and monitoring the health of OSS intake can enable proactive management of potential risks, but it is also a mount...

Paper: Sustaining Availability of the Maintenance Labor with Human Infrastructure Key for Healthy Open Source Software Projects

11 minute read

We (Me, Georg Link, and Kevin Lumbard) explore how the health and sustainability of Open Source Software projects depends on the human activity invested by project maintainers and contributors. The activity invested is labeled Maintenance Labor and can, accordingly, originate from either the maintainers (Maintainer Labor) or the contributors (Contributor Labor). The latter includes the full spe...

Research on Experimentation in Game Development: Want to contribute?

1 minute read

As part of WASP-funded research project, we are investigating how game companies experiment with and evaluate new ideas, features, and changes throughout the development process. The goal is to be able to reject or accept any assumption about an idea as early as possible based on the experiment, for example, based on the technical and commercial viability among (potential) users. Earlier feedba...

Report: Public Sector Open Source Program Offices - Archetypes for how to Grow (Common) Institutional Capabilities

14 minute read

Summary and main take-aways from a report commissioned by the European Commision and DIGIT mapping, where we mapped out how Public Sector Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are structured and organized. An OSPO may be compared to a center of competency and excellence driving organizational readyness related to OSS within or across a set of organizations. In the study, we looked at 12 cases acr...

Report: Software Reuse through Open Source Software in the Public Sector

9 minute read

Summary and main take-aways from report commissioned by the Danish Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen), where we examined how software reuse through Open Source Software (OSS) can be supported and realized through public policy and related support actions. In the report, we surveyed policies and practices related to software reuse, focusing on OSS, in 16 digitally mature co...