by Jordi Cabot | Jun 18, 2019 | Community
The network of collaborations in an open source project can reveal relevant emergent properties that influence its prospects of success. In this work, we analyze open source projects to determine whether they exhibit a rich-club behavior, i.e., a phenomenon where...
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 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 Jordi Cabot | Nov 6, 2017 | Process
Have you ever tried to explain to a non-techie how software development works in GitHub (with the concepts of fork, branch, pull request, merge,…)?. Not easy. To be honest, it is not that trivial to understand for a programmer either. But this is what we needed...
