by Javier Cánovas | Feb 15, 2018 | Community, Tool
Decidim, for the Catalan term let’s decide, is a platform for participatory democracy which enables the creation of citizen participation portals. The platform provides a set of components which configure different participatory spaces in the portals. For...
by Javier Cánovas | Dec 28, 2017 | research, Community, Tool
The development of software projects entails significant implementation and collaboration activities, typically supported by tools such as issue trackers, code review tools, and Version Control Systems. However, these tools only provide a partial view of the project...
by Javier Cánovas | May 30, 2017 | Community, research
We (Valerio, Jordi and myself) have continued our meta-analysis of research papers on how software development practices are influenced by the use of a distributed social coding platform like GitHub (see our initial work in this area). Our objective is to identify...
by Javier Cánovas | Jun 5, 2015 | research, Community
In the last years, GitHub has become one the most popular platforms (if not the most) to develop and promote open-source projects. With more than ten millions of repositories (and growing, though quite a few of them are not real projects), GitHub gathers many of the...
by Javier Cánovas | Jan 10, 2015 | research
We have been studying what characterizes a software project as open. Our aim is to come up with a set of metrics to measure the level of openness in open source projects. In this blog post we will describe the work we have carried out in this direction. Openness is...
