Tag Archives: open source software

New video campaign of the Free Software Foundation

It is a very good idea for the Free Software Foundation to ask free software users for short video-clips (2-5 minutes) about the question “why free software is important in everyday life”. In my point of view this new campaign will provide a better understanding of why people use free software and why it has [...]

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Usability in small-sized open source software projects

Yesterday I attended a talk given by Michael Terry from the University of Waterloo. It primarily dealt with usability in free/open source projects. He introduced ingimp, a tool implemented to support usability in open source software. This tool extends the existing functionality of GIMP by logging the day-to-day-practices of users. All gathered data are publicly [...]

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CfP: JAIS Special Issue: Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software

Call for papers: Special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)
Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software
Over the past decade, the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)  phenomenon has revolutionized the ways in which organizations and  individuals create, distribute, acquire and use information systems  and services, making it an increasingly important topic of [...]

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