Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact

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.

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).