software development

Open Source Engagement – a New Source of Empowerment for Corporate Software Developers?

In the past two decades, software has become increasingly important for the successful operation of any kind of business. In this context, the role of software developers has changed fundamentally – according to Stephen O’Grady, they are considered the “New Kingmakers”, i.e. the real decision makers in technology. One major disruptor that drove this shift in the role of software developers is the rise of open source.

Experience level:

Beginner

Other Cool Stuff

Energy Agents for Simulations, Testbeds and the Productive Use

Christian Derksen (University of Duisburg-Essen)

In the meantime, agents and agent technologies are widely accepted as a conceptual approach for controlling energy systems in a Smart Grid context, and many research projects and pilots have already shown their applicability. From a global scope however, building proprietary software artifacts should not be the goal in critical system environments like the energy supply.

Experience level:

Intermediate

Runtime & Frameworks

When Research Project teams learn Open Collaboration: why a lonely repository is not enough

Manon Midy (Enalean)

Philippe Krief (Eclipse Foundation)

The Eclipse Foundation is a partner in many publicly funded Research projects. It helps consortia members to successfully create, publish, and sustain their code as open source software making the results of the research projects available for commercial or public exploitation.

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs