Schedule of Events.

 

  1. 1.  October 1, Introduction, overview of topics, and review of expectations to much groaning and gnashing of teeth.  slides

  2. 2. October 3,  Open Source Philosophy & Economics.  To read: Cathedral & Bazaar, Weber/Economy, Microsoft Halloween Document.  Prem will lead discussion.

  3. 3. October 8, Special Event: presentation by Prof. Harald Gall, University of Zurich. Discussion of Prof. Gall’s work, and also of Prof. Whiteheads colloquium. New Reading (added thursday) Paper by Harld Gall; another paper by Fluri & Gall Reading: Whitehead and Ostrand/Weyuker.

  4. 4. October 10, Informal discussion of software design, and Basics of Software Metrics. Papers: A nice survey, and another paper. Also discussion of  ``correlation” and pitfalls. (See wikipedia)

  5. 5. October 15,  Recommender Systems Backgrounder, Suade, FRAN,  Hipikat

  6. 6. October 17,  Clones (Mark Gabel)  Papers: baker-wcre95.pdf,  deckard-icse07.pdf, d-ccfinder-icse07.pdf

  7. 7. Oct 22, Challenges of Distributed, Global Teams, special guest session led by Prof. Anand Swaminathan, Gouzieueta Business School, Emory University  an authority in Organizational Structure and Behaviour.

  8. 8. Oct 24,  Michael Ogawa (Visualization  of  Open Source Software Data) Survey  Views
    on visualization       Houses!! and  another visualization

  9. 9. Oct 29th Jason Honda (Roles in Open Source Projects & Role Transitions) Crowston & Howison  Scacchi Lakhani & Von Hippel 

  10. 10.  Oct 31st  Prem leads a discussion on Aspects and Aspect Mining (Papers by Silvia Breu et al, Tonella et al , and Charles Zhang et al)

  11. 9. Nov 5. Radmilo Racic (Open Source Security) OSS Security  BSD History  one million liness.

  12. 10. Nov 7 Empirical Studies of Program Understanding. papers.zip (Daniel Lorca)

  13. 11. Nov 12 Veterans Day Holiday.

  14. 12. Nov 14  Haoran Wen (Software Physics)

  15. 13. Nov 19  Andre Nash (Design, Evolution and Optimization)

  16. 14.  Nov 21 Daryl Posnett (Design Patterns and their impact)

  17. 15. Nov  26 David Edelstein (Social Networks in Open Source Projects)

  18. 16. Nov 28   Specification Mining (Andreas Saebjoernsen), MAPO, Version history mining, and Mining Specifications of Malicious Behavior.

  19. 17. Dec  3 Christian Bird (Socio-Technical Congruence and incongruence in OSS and beyond)

  20. 18. Dec 5 Zach Saul (Graphlets in Open Source and Biology)