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Dr Dirk Riehle is visiting Wellington next week - he will give two seminars at Victoria University of Wellington on his Open Source software research. Please see details below. These free public seminars will be of interest to software developers and managers, as well as students and researchers. Please come along, and invite others who may be interested. Both seminars will take place in CO350 in the School of Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington. Directions to get to the seminar room: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/ecs/about/visiting For enquiries please contact Professor James Noble ([email protected]). ======================================== Title: Best of (our) Empirical Open Source Research Abstract: Open source software is publicly developed software. Thus, for the first time, we can broadly analyse in data-driven detail how people program, how bugs come about, and how we could improve our tools. In this talk, I'll review six years of our open source empirical (data) research and highlight the most interesting insights, including how different (or not) open source is from closed source programming. Time: 2pm-3pm Tuesday 27 November Location: Room CO350, Cotton Building, Kelburn Campus. http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/Seminars?rm=details&id=821 ======================================== Title: Sustainable Open Source Abstract: MySQL was sold for one billion US-dollar. Red Hat is worth a multiple of that. The Eclipse Foundation has pushed many software tool vendors out of business. How come that open source, a phenomenon dubbed "temporary" not only has become sustainable but the business strategy of choice? In this talk, I discuss the four main business models, two for-profit and two not-for-profit, that have made open source sustainable. These models are changing the business of software and are the future of our industry. Time: 10am-11am Wednesday 28 November Location: Room CO350, Cotton Building, Kelburn Campus. http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/Seminars?rm=details&id=822 ======================================== Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle is the Professor for Open Source Software at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Before joining academia, Riehle led the Open Source Research Group at SAP Labs, LLC, in Palo Alto, California (Silicon Valley). Riehle founded the Wiki Symposium, a conference dedicated to wiki research and practice. He was also the lead architect of the first UML virtual machine. He is interested in open source software engineering and agile methods, complexity science and human collaboration, and software design. Prof. Riehle holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zürich and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School. He welcomes email at [email protected], blogs at http://dirkriehle.com, and tweets as @dirkriehle. ======================================== Many thanks. Kind regards, Craig Craig Anslow PhD Thesis Student School of Engineering and Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand +64 4 463 9998 http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
