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Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development Øyvind Hauge, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, Andreas Røsdal oyvin

Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development Øyvind Hauge, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, Andreas Røsdal oyvind.hauge@idi.ntnu.no. Motivation and purpose. $ ?. Roles. OSS Provider OSS Integrator OSS Participant ISS Participant. Method. Semi-structured interviews

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Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development Øyvind Hauge, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, Andreas Røsdal oyvin

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  1. Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development Øyvind Hauge, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, Andreas Røsdal oyvind.hauge@idi.ntnu.no OSS 2007

  2. Motivation and purpose $ ? OSS 2007

  3. Roles • OSS Provider • OSS Integrator • OSS Participant • ISS Participant OSS 2007

  4. Method • Semi-structured interviews • 3 Norwegian companies • Questionnaire • OSS Provider 3 • OSS Integrator 9 • OSS Participant 6 • ISS Participant 6 OSS 2007

  5. Results • OSS Integrator • Motivated by availability of components and honest information • OSS used as commodity/infrastructure • Challenges related to maintenance • New evaluation criteria OSS 2007

  6. Results • OSS Provider • Added value from the community • Diffusion of product • Community requires effort • OSS Participant • Primarily users • Driven by need for product • Occasional bug reports/fixes • ISS Participant • Tool users OSS 2007

  7. Validity • Statistical strength • Control over population and sample • Review of the results OSS 2007

  8. Conclusions and Future Work • More empirical research is needed • Undergoing projects • Selection of OSS components • Initialization of OSS projects • How to benefit from community contribution OSS 2007

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