by Jordi Cabot | Oct 20, 2019 | Community, research
The development Open Source Software fundamentally depends on the participation and commitment of volunteer developers to progress on a particular task. Several works have presented strategies to increase the on-boarding and engagement of new contributors, but little...
by Jordi Cabot | Sep 6, 2019 | Community, Tool
Sustainability of open source is a huge problem, especially in a world where all software depends, one way or the other, on open-source software to run. There are many ways to help and thank open-source maintainers but, IMHO, the only scalable option to make OSS...
by Jordi Cabot | Sep 1, 2019 | Community
Every piece of software relies on a number of open-source projects. We all depend on open source one way or the other (check this dependency analyzer if you don’t believe me). We should make sure we take the time to thank all the contributors behind the...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 6, 2019 | AI, Tool
Artificial intelligence is going to change the way software is developed. On the research side, we’ve seen many initiatives attempting to bring some of the benefits of AI and Machine Learning in particular to software development. Many of these papers are part...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 15, 2019 | research, Tool
Open data: are we there yet?. This was the title of a personal reflection on the present and future of open data, published in the blog of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. There, I argued that while the number of open data resources keeps growing at a fast...
