by Javier Cánovas | Nov 29, 2018 | Community, research
In the last years, a number of Open-Source Systems (OSS) have created parallel foundations, as legal instruments to better articulate the structure, collaboration and financial model for the project. Some examples are Apache, Linux, Mozilla, Eclipse or Django...
by Jordi Cabot | Sep 21, 2018 | Community
Software is the infrastructure that powers our digital society. And most of this software is either Open Source Software (OSS) or heavily relies on it. And while this is great news in many ways, it’s also a huge problem, given that most open source projects face...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 14, 2018 | AI, Community, research
We live in a software-enabled world. Software is the infrastructure that powers our digital society. And yet, software development is in a permanent state of crisis. Improvements in programming tools, languages and methods have not been able to keep up with the...
by Jordi Cabot | May 7, 2018 | Architecture, Community
WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS), powering up to 29% of all Internet websites (source). A CMS is a generic term for any system that facilitates the creation and publication of any type of digital content. This category includes platforms...
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 | Community, research, 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...
