1 June 12th 2007OSS 2007 Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development Øyvind Hauge, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, Andreas Røsdal

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

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

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

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

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