Organizational Issues in Managing Open Source Software
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Speaker (s):
Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman
Professor of Software Management Practice,
Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley
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October 11, 2019, Friday
1:30pm - 2:30pm
SIS Seminar Room 2.4, Level 2
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
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ABSTRACT
Today, almost every organization - commercial, non-profit, and government - is using open source software, and many of them are also contributing to projects. However, there are many issues associated with making effective use of open source software, including:
a) keeping track of all of the different open source components being used;
b) following updates that provide maintenance and security fixes, as well as new functionality;
c) addressing issues of open source licensing;
d) including open source code in externally distributed products
e) developing employee guidelines for working on open source projects
This talk describes these issues and the approaches that organizations have taken to address them.
About the Speaker
Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is a Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, and the Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), focused on evaluation and adoption of open source software. In 1980, as a Professor at UC San Francisco, he released the software for his User Software Engineering research project under a BSD license. Subsequently, as CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE), he incorporated some of that software in IDE's Software through Pictures multiuser modeling environment, released in 1984, making it among the very first commercial products to include open source software. After IDE, Tony was VP of Engineering for a dot-com, and later became VP of Bluestone Software, where Bluestone's open source Total-e-Mobile toolkit allowed mobile devices to connect to JavaEE web applications. Tony is very active in the international open source research community, and served as General Chair of the 2009 and 2014 Int'l. Conference on Open Source Systems. He served on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) from 2010-16 and the Board of Advisors of Open Source for America. Tony is a Fellow of the ACM and a Life Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to software engineering and software development environments. He received the 2012 Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE's Technical Council on Software Engineering and the 2013 Influential Educator Award from the ACM's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering.
