Structural changes in open source software and increased involvement of commercial organizations in the development and governance of open source projects represent a departure from the „pure‟ open source paradigm and an emergence of a new collaborative model. In this paper we call for a new perspective on open source software research that explains this latest alliance with commercial vendors....

ABSTRACT It is common for community-based free software projects to be associated with an organizational scenario that resembles “a bazaar more than a cathedral,” and differ from the traditional, or ‘bureaucratic’ way of organizing work. This paper analyzes governance these organizations perspective their structure control, considering development trajectory three in Brazil. Results show consta...

Özet. Komuta kontrol bilgi sistemleri (KKBS), askeri organizasyonlar tarafından her türlü planlama, görevlendirme ve harekât faaliyetlerinin bütünleştirilmesi ve gerçekleştirilmesinin kolaylaştırılması amacıyla kullanılmaktadır. Her ne kadar farklı askeri organizasyonlar kendi KKBS’leri için farklı gereksinim kümeleri ortaya koysa da, tüm organizasyonlar için ortaklaştırılabilecek bir takım ger...

Experiments along the bazaar-route: the importance of user-producer dialogue in shaping new media technology Per Hetland Per Hetland Per Hetland Per Hetland The Internet for all? The Internet for all? The Internet for all? The Internet for all? Technological mediation involves representation and inscription in the world. 1 One may therefore claim that engineers become sociologists through their...

Topic modeling of fashion trends were analyzed using the MALLET toolkit. Harper’s Bazaar magazines from 1860-1899 were used (freely available online). This resulted in 20 topics with 4 characterizing words each. Trends over time were analyzed in several different ways using 100-topics and 20-topics.

XOM is an open source API for processing XML with Java using a streaming tree model. XOM was implemented using the cathedral model of open source development rather than a bazaar. As such, a set of explicit design principles for both XML APIs specifically and Java APIs in general has informed its development. This paper discusses these principles. XOM Design Principles Table of

The Internet of Things will comprise many millions of systems, some being big data. The aggregated information from these systems represent, really big data systems. The problems arising from so many devices, data and processing coming together are likened to an international bazaar, with similar challenges. These big data problems in the IoT are reviewed from a reliability engineering perspect...