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- 1. Taking Ideas from Research to Open Source Wayne Beaton & Ralph Mueller (narrated by Ralph Mueller) Eclipse Foundation Lancaster, July 27, 2011
- 2. Ivory Towers
- 3. Agenda • About the Eclipse Foundation • Research And Open Source • Things To Consider • Examples • Looking For A Place
- 8. Research and OSS • Use open source • Create open source • „Industrial research“
- 9. Use Open Source • Time • Money • Best Practices
- 10. Create Open Source • your work is important • dissemination & feedback ==> community • life beyond end-of-thesis? • re-use • commercialization
- 12. Funding Agencies Like Open Source • ITEA 2 • FP 7 • BMFT
- 13. Things To Consider • Community • Quality • „Business Model“ and Licenses • Intellectual Property
- 14. Why Community? • Shared Development Burden • Ubiquity Of A Framework/Platform • Acknowledge The Need! • Document it • Make it part of your project charter
- 15. Different People • End Users • Adopters • Committers
- 16. End Users • Quality • Information • Documentation • Easy to Find, Install, Use • Support
- 17. Adopters • Personalize and Extend • Easy Programming Model • Reliable APIs • Predictable Releases • Low Barrier of Entry
- 18. Committers • Be Part Of Other Cool Project • Low Barrier of Entry • Align Project Goals with Own Goals • Get Stuff Done
- 19. Entry Barrier • Can Everybody Be A Committer? • Should It Be Difficult To Become A Committer? • Can You Trust Your Committers? • How Do You Establish Trust? • Is Your Work Still Original Work?
- 20. Diversity • Generalization Of Competing Needs And Goals • Outlives Your Involvement • Independence From Single Researcher • Now This Is Interesting To Corporations
- 21. Open And Transparent • Everybody Can Participate (Code Speaks!) • Many Ideas, Many Approaches, Many Use Cases • Everybody Can See Everything • Even Your Problems ... That‘s A Tough One
- 22. Realism • How Large Is Your Potential Community? • Is Your Project Niche Or Mainstream? • Will Your Academic Research Attract Corporate? • Plan For Transition To Industrial • Define Success Realistically
- 23. Be Pro-Active • Find The Community • Planes, Trains And Automobiles ... • Reach Out! • Demo Camps, Stammtisch, Webinars, User Groups, Bar Camps, ...
- 24. Quality • Good Enough Is Not Good Enough • A Milestone Is A Milestone, A Promise Is A Promise • Plan For Quality - And Expect The Same From Your Collaborators • Be „Quality Driven“
- 25. Legalize It • Define Your Business Case • Find The Appropriate License • Oh - And Who Owns What? • And How Do You Track It? • Trust Is Good, Control Is Better (Lenin)
- 26. Advertize It • Blogs • Forums • Twitter, Goolge+, Facebook And The Likes • Talk To The Media • Market Yourself • Buy Drinks As A Last Resort
- 27. Code Speaks ...
- 30. Many More • SMILA • g-Eclipse • Eclipse IDE for Education • Code Recommenders • Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler
- 33. Text Picture: Wikipedia
- 37. Thank you Thank You All For Listening! Thank You Wayne For The Insights! ralph.mueller@eclipse.org