From the monthly archives: August 2011

Network Programmers and Switchers

By On August 25, 2011 · 17 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, Intel, MeeGo, nokia, Qt, research, Understand

I’ve been a fan of Castells[1] ever since I read his trilogy The Information Age [2][3][4]. When I started to think about my PhD around a year ago about open source ecosystems, I stumbled upon Castells latest theories in a great book “Communication Power”[5]. His theory of networks and communication inspired me and I decided [...]

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The amount of paid developers in project

By On August 23, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Android, community, Ecosystem, MeeGo, research

First of all, I have to make clear that most developers don’t see any difference in general between paid developer and contributor. However, they see differences between the two if it is asked indirectly. I quess the ‘I don’t care’ answer refers to results, where it does not matter who did it as [...]

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Developer Matrix

By On August 22, 2011 · 25 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, MeeGo, open source, research, Understand

I took a closer look at the developer role model introduced at previous blog post Developers – refers to what? I started to think about a matrix which would present all the options where a developer could be located. Of course matrix would represent simplified model of the reality and would not apply [...]

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Problems ahead – splitted bug tracking

By On August 19, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Android, community, Ecosystem, MeeGo, nokia, open source, Uncategorized

Bug tracking is a powerful tool for developers. It is one of the most important communication methods. In app development developer has to know where to file a bug. Let’s take an example. In MeeGo ecosystem there are multiple bugtrackers for different purposes: Qt / IDE, MeeGo project (several categories), multiple internal-only trackers. Also having [...]

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Developers – refers to what?

By On August 18, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Ecosystem, MeeGo, Participate, Qt, research, Uncategorized, Understand

Discussions around (open source and other) ecosystems and communities often include word ‘developer‘. Developer does this and that, developers are part of the community, developers need tools, they create apps, etc. Evidently, the word ‘developer’ refers to wide scale of roles and functions. I’ve been doing my PhD research about open source ecosystems and interviewed [...]

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LDP nodes spreading to new cities

By On August 8, 2011 · 17 Comments · In LDP, MeeGo, open source, Uncategorized

The buzz LDP has created in Tampere has inspired MeeGo/Qt users in other cities to contact LDP managers to establish new LDP nodes in Helsinki, Oulu and possibly Lahti too. Helsinki node will be hosted by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). Lahti is still going through some thinking. Oulu is [...]

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Restart Oulu MeeGo Network with LDP

By On August 7, 2011 · 18 Comments · In Ecosystem, LDP, MeeGo, open source, Participate, Uncategorized, Understand

Ossoil has been approached by Oulu MeeGo developers and expressed willingness to ‘restart’ MeeGo activities in Oulu again! This is more than welcome! Oulu has been part of MeeGo Network Finland (MNFI) for some time already, but has been asleep for some time now. For those that don’t know, MeeGo Network [...]

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Reprogramming Open Source Ecosystems – case study of MeeGo

By On August 7, 2011 · 7 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, MeeGo, open source, research

ACADEMIC CONTENT: This blog entry describes Jarkko Moilanen’s PhD research about open source ecosystems.

Abstract Research focuses on describing power variations in open source ecosystems with qualitative methods focus on MeeGo ecosystem. One of the goals is to describe how system and software developers understand open source ecosystem. Research adopts Castells’ theory of Communication Power [...]

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