1. 1 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development Øyvind Hauge, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, Andreas Røsdal oyvind.hauge@idi.ntnu.no

2. 2 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Motivation and purpose $ ?

3. 3 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Roles OSS Provider OSS Integrator OSS Participant ISS Participant

4. 4 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Method Semi-structured interviews –3 Norwegian companies Questionnaire –OSS Provider 3 –OSS Integrator9 –OSS Participant6 –ISS Participant6

5. 5 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Results OSS Integrator –Motivated by availability of components and honest information –OSS used as commodity/infrastructure –Challenges related to maintenance –New evaluation criteria

6. 6 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Results OSS Provider –Added value from the community –Diffusion of product –Community requires effort OSS Participant –Primarily users –Driven by need for product –Occasional bug reports/fixes ISS Participant –Tool users

7. 7 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Validity Statistical strength Control over population and sample Review of the results

8. 8 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Conclusions and Future Work More empirical research is needed Undergoing projects –Selection of OSS components –Initialization of OSS projects –How to benefit from community contribution