Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2015, held in Florence, Italy, in May 2015. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They have been organized in the following topical sections: open source software engineering; communication and collaboration; examples and case studies; adoption, use, and impact; and intellectual property and legal issues. Also included is an OSS 2015 PhD contest paper.

Autorentext
Ernesto Damiani is a professor at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Milan. He is the Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP).

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An Empirical Study of the Relation Between Strong Change Coupling and Defects Using History and Social Metrics in the Apache Aries Project.- Scaling and Internationalizing an Agile FOSS Project: Lessons Learned.- How Developers Acquire FLOSS Skills.- Implicit Coordination: A Case Study of the Rails OSS Project.- The Diffusion of Pastebin Tools to Enhance Communication in FLOSS Mailing Lists.- Examining Usability Work and Culture in OSS.- On the Availability and Effectiveness of Open Source Software for Digital Signing of PDF Documents.- A Systematic Approach for Evaluating BPM Systems: Case Studies on Open Source and Proprietary Tools.- Smart Route Planning Using Open Data and Participatory Sensing.- A Qualitative Study on the Adoption of Open Source Software in Information Technology Outsourcing Organizations.- Surveying the Adoption of FLOSS by Public Administration Local Organizations.- The RISCOSS Platform for Risk Management in Open Source Software Adoption.- First Results About Motivation and Impact of License Changes in Open Source Projects.- On the Variability of the BSD and MIT Licenses.- The Right to a Contribution: An Exploratory Survey on How Organizations Address It.- Open Source Software Ecosystems: Towards a Modelling Framework.