1. Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development yvind Hauge, Carl-Fredrik Srensen, Andreas Rsdal [email_address] yvind Hauge, Carl-Fredrik Srensen and Andreas Rsdal, Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development, in: Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP Working Group 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Software (OSS2007) - Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation , June 11-14, Limerick, Ireland, pages 259--264, Springer, 2007 Doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_25

2. Motivation and purpose $? 3. Roles

OSS Provider

OSS Integrator

OSS Participant

ISS Participant

4. Method

Semi-structured interviews

• 3 Norwegian companies

Questionnaire

• OSS Provider3 5. OSS Integrator 9 6. OSS Participant 6 7. ISS Participant 6

8. Results

OSS Integrator

• Motivated by availability of components and honest information 9. OSS used as commodity/infrastructure 10. Challenges related to maintenance 11. New evaluation criteria

12. Results

OSS Provider

• Added value from the community 13. Diffusion of product 14. Community requires effort

OSS Participant

• Primarily users 15. Driven by need for product 16. Occasional bug reports/fixes

ISS Participant

• Tool users

17. Validity

Statistical strength

Control over population and sample

Review of the results

18. Conclusions and Future Work

More empirical research is needed

Undergoing projects

• Selection of OSS components 19. Initialization of OSS projects 20. How to benefit from community contribution