Open Source Book

Current Assignments

• Want a way to keep track of contributions for purposes of info-viz display authorship
• Want a way to
  • Add core content
  • Add supplemental content
  • Produce conventional book in the end

Preliminaries

• Write book in open-source way
• Capable of being formatted into a book
• Working title: Thriving On Open Source

Outline

1. Introduction

• Purpose
  • gain visibility for Kitware
  • social impact
  • recognize community
• experience
• participants
  • who are the authors
  • who is the company
  • who are affiliated collaborators

1. Community

  - A matter of scale (effects of scale on the community)
  - The daily cycle:Day-to-day collaboration
  - Practical tools for open source communities
  - managing open source projects (leadership, contributions, etc.)

3. Open Source Myths and Misunderstandings

  # qaulity
  ** Quality- the myth of "free" software
  ** Practical software process
  # warranties vs commercial software
  # 

4. Business Models

  - support
  - consulting
  - research
  - platform approach
  - dual license
  - struggles with open versus closed

5. Open-Science

  - The Scientific Method
  - Coopting the Method
  - Regaining the method
  

• Case Studies
  • VTK
  • ITK
  • CMake / CDash
  • IGSTK
  • ParaView
  • GCC_XML

6. Musings on Open Source

    1) Wisdom of crowds:  Wikipedia
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
       http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/excerpt.html

    2) Open source : voting
       http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/11/61045

    3) Network Neutrality
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality
       Internet Freedom:
       http://www.eff.org/
       Electronic Frontier Foundation

    4) Open Government
       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmlzW980i5A
       http://web.media.mit.edu/~dang/opengov.html

    5) Wikileaks
       Freedom of Information.

7. Future

References

   Open Innovation
   http://www.amazon.com/Open-Innovation-Researching-New-Paradigm/dp/0199290725/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I2CL3WEZO8R3WF&colid=Y33DWL1PUGRV

   Open Business Models: How to thrive in the New innovation environment
   http://www.amazon.com/Open-Business-Models-Innovation-Landscape/dp/1422104273/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I6RB0TPU7RU5A&colid=Y33DWL1PUGRV

   Open Innovation:
   The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology
   http://www.amazon.com/Open-Innovation-Imperative-Profiting-Technology/dp/1422102831/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I31NKWQP8ENG2Y&colid=Y33DWL1PUGRV

   Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy
   http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Happens-Elsewhere-Business-Strategy/dp/1558608893/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I2FLRWOBQKBDTU&colid=Y33DWL1PUGRV