Advocacy material for "going open source"?

[Andrés Muñiz Piniella]

Sorry for the top post!

El 31 de diciembre de 2014 00:30:56 GMT, "Andrés Muñiz Piniella" <a75576 at alumni.tecnun.es> escribió:
>Hi Torsten et al.,
>

Sorry. This should be Bronger if you are German, right? As we have not personally met?

>>My question is: Is there any material (slides, web pages, books,
>>case studies, peer-reviewed articles) that help with promoting
>>converting to an open-source model?  Could you point me to it?

>There are some papers comparing calc, gnumeric and excel. Seems to show
>peer review of gnumeric with support of R project makes it a better
>spreadsheet. Same gnu/octave vs matlab and others.
>
> Might be new papers now.
>

Also there was a europen free software conference with a published talk about funding for H2020. I think it was published in this mailing list.



>>I work in a government-funded research facility.  Over the past 6
>>years, we created in-house software for managing our research data.
>>I was the primary responsible person for this project.  Now, I'd
>>like to see it being converted into an open-source project.  GPL,
>>GitHub, etc.

>EU look for more open way of publishing I do not think that they would
>like the money spent in H2020 be for a particular company.
>
>R&D papers are now gold or green preferably so CC or similar. If you
>publish data analysis you should let others reproduce the results. And
>comment how correct it is. Plus a refernce to the code is quicker than
>describing it in a paper.
>
>Please Post on Gitoriuos as it is on this side of the Atlantic and not
>propietary such as gitorious.
>

>>My boss does not rule it out straight away.  But he likes to be
>>convinced that it is a good move.  He has only little idea about
>>open-source software, licences and the like.  By the way, we have no
>>other "business plan" with this software.

>Personal case: after using 5 different propietary scanning probe
>microspe data analysis software and hitting brick wall with comments
>such as "cannot put voltage on data as it is not our core business" i
>now use gwyddion.net. I feel it is the defacto spm analysis software
>i.e. industry standard and companies will problably ship it by default
>with teir equipment. So the CMI are very visible now.
>
>Hope it helps.
>
>Andres
>
>
>
>El 30 de diciembre de 2014 20:30:56 GMT, Torsten Bronger
><bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> escribió:
>>Hi!
>>
>>I work in a government-funded research facility.  Over the past 6
>>years, we created in-house software for managing our research data.
>>I was the primary responsible person for this project.  Now, I'd
>>like to see it being converted into an open-source project.  GPL,
>>GitHub, etc.
>>
>>My boss does not rule it out straight away.  But he likes to be
>>convinced that it is a good move.  He has only little idea about
>>open-source software, licences and the like.  By the way, we have no
>>other "business plan" with this software.
>>
>>My question is: Is there any material (slides, web pages, books,
>>case studies, peer-reviewed articles) that help with promoting
>>converting to an open-source model?  Could you point me to it?
>>
>>(I raised this question on a German FSF mailing list a couple of
>>months ago but the responses did only contain personal opinions.
>>While I agree with all of it, it does not help me.)
>>
>>Regards,
>>Torsten Bronger.

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