Scott Hissam - Böcker

We are very pleased to introduce Open Source Development, Communities and Quality. The International Conference on Open Source Systems has come to its fourth edition – OSS 2008. Now, Free, Libre, and Open Source software is by all means now one of the most relevant subjects of study in several disciplines, ranging from information technology to social sciences and including also law, business, and political sciences. There are several conference tracks devoted to open source software with several publications appearing in high quality journals and magazines. OSS 2008 has been organized with the purpose of being the reference venue for those working in this area, being the most prominent conference in this area. For this th reason OSS 2008 has been located within the frameworks of the 20 World Computer Congress, WCC 2008, in Milan, the largest event of IFIP in 2008. We believe that this conference series, and the IFIP working group it represents, can play an important role in meeting these challenges, and hope that this book will become a valuable contribution to the open source body of research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of IFIP Working Group 2.13 Open Source Software held in Milan, Italy on September 7-10, 2008. The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2010, held in Salvador, Brazil, in October 2011. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 4 industrial full papers and 8 lightning talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: OSS quality and reliability, OSS products, review of technologies of and for OSS, knowledge and research building in OSS, OSS reuse, integration, and compliance, OSS value and economics, OSS adoption in industry, and mining OSS repositories.