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Year 2011 – ends and beginnings

By On December 31, 2011 · 13 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, finland, Hackers, hackerspace, LDP, MeeGo, meego network finland, Qt, Ultimaker, Uncategorized

At first I was not going to write about what big and small events took place 2011 in my life, what I participated in and so on. Then I thought why not. It will offer me a chance to sob and joy So, here are some events, beginnings and ends that took place 2011.

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Fleeing paid developers?

By On September 1, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Ecosystem, Intel, MeeGo, nokia, research, Uncategorized, Understand

While I was lurking in IRC the other day as usual, I noticed someone mentioning that mailing lists seem to be quite quiet. I agreed with the statement. In the past months there has been a lot more activity, but lately not so much. One obvious reason came to my mind immediately: holidays. Yet I was [...]

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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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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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LDP projects – open or closed source?

By On July 19, 2011 · 18 Comments · In community, finland, LDP, MeeGo, meego network finland

I’ve been implementing LDP section in our portal for the past two weeks or so. We have finally got it usable enough and devices are pouring out! You can check out more details about LDP from meegonetwork.fi pages. I have written also a few blog entries about and around the topics related to LDP [...]

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