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The 2010 AMOS project (from OSR Group)
The AMOS Project is the Open Source Research Group’s main class, teaching students agile methods and open source practices. It is also part of my incubator for startups. We just finished the first year. For your convenience, here are links to the most recent and relevant blog posts on the 2010 AMOS Project. I intend…
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Four months of open source professorship
2009 is coming to an end and so are my first four months as a professor. Time to take stock, if only shortly. The Open Source Research group posted a year-end summary for its first months There is initial sponsorship by Red Hat and Novell, demonstrating industry interest There was a fair amount of press…
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Open access and open source
This morning, I read that the main Swedish research funding agency has decided to enforce open access to research results of projects it funds. This is a big deal for Swedish researchers relying on these funds: The status of a researcher is determined by the prestige of the journals in which they publish (and how…
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Busy at the open source research group
We had a busy first week over at the website of the Open Source Research Group: Fun! And don’t be shy, take a look!
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A license agnostic ACM digital library?
Most authors transfer their copyright to the ACM when having their papers published and archived in the ACM Digital Library. While the ACM allows authors to provide their papers on personal servers for non-commercial purposes, the goal recognizably is to make the DL not only the primary source of such material, but also the only…
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Author obfuscation
In the last few days, I’ve been reading up on author obfuscation. By “author obfuscation” I mean tools and techniques that will ensure an author’s anonymity when posting a blog entry or writing a document. You might think that not giving your name or writing under a pseudonym may be sufficient, but I don’t think…