Learning and best practices for learning in open-source software communities

Singh, Vandana; Holt, Lila

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2012.12.002

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“…Most of the higher educational institutes that provide fashion courses or clothing technology courses have access to educational licenses of CAD software for pattern development. However, according to [31], online education is increasingly becoming a dominant part of our education system.…”

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A Comparative Study of Open-Source and Licensed CAD Software to Support Garment Development Learning

2019

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Most universities have included computer-aided design (CAD) pattern making systems education and training in their clothing technology courses in recent years, so as to respond to the actual needs of the fashion world for high-skilled fashion designers and clothing engineers. With the rapid rise in the use of open source software (OSS) in all types of applications, it is important to know if the existing OSS CAD software for garment prototyping development can successfully support the learning process. The present study compares two commercial licensed CAD systems for pattern design (Polypattern and Create) to an open source software, Seamly2D, and to Wild Ginger’s Caveo V6 programme, which runs within an OSS. In total, two licensed and two OSS systems have been evaluated in their weights in accomplishing the garment development of ten different pattern designs. The results obtained for the evaluation of a set of OS and licensed CAD systems are presented and critically discussed.

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Section: Literature Researchmentioning

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A Comparative Study of Open-Source and Licensed CAD Software to Support Garment Development Learning

2019

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“…They share and acquire knowledge associated with their profession. Furthermore, OSS communities have been a source of learning for participants since their creation [36], which offer 24 h, 7 days a week, 365 days support with up to date content and learning materials, and all of this provided by volunteers at no charge. Therefore, an open source community is more than about software development, but also provides a rich field to explore the process of software knowledge creation, accumulation, and dissemination [30].…”

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“…Singh and Holt provided insights on how the OSS community uses the forums for learning and solving problems. They explored the motivations for joining OSS communities [36], the learning that occurs in the communities, and the challenges to learning. Hardi had a case study using Google Chrome project [45] to affirm that situated learning [46] is present among open source developers at an earlier time of a project.…”

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An Empirical Study on Security Knowledge Sharing and Learning in Open Source Software Communities

Wen¹

2018

Computers

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Open source software (OSS) security has been the focus of the security community and practitioners over the past decades. However, the number of new vulnerabilities keeps increasing in today’s OSS systems. With today’s increasingly important and complex OSS, lacking software security knowledge to handle security vulnerabilities in OSS development will result in more breaches that are serious in the future. Learning software security is a difficult and challenging task since the domain is quite context specific and the real project situation is necessary to apply the security concepts within the specific system. Many OSS proponents believe that the OSS community offers significant learning opportunities from its best practices. However, studies that specifically explore security knowledge sharing and learning in OSS communities are scarce. This research is intended to fill this gap by empirically investigating factors that affect knowledge sharing and learning about software security and the relationship among them. A conceptual model is proposed that helps to conceptualize the linkage between socio-technical practices and software security learning processes in OSS communities. A questionnaire and statistical analytical techniques were employed to test hypothesized relationships in the model to gain a better understanding of this research topic.

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“…The advantages of OSS comes from its own definition and the notion of freedom that behaves. The main benefits that deserve a bigger highlighting are: discharge on the cost of acquisition and licensing application, the lack of expiration date of the license, easy integration with complementary software, and launching several stable versions -inspected and extensively tested by the usual broad community of each application [18,19].…”

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Open Source Backup Systems for SMEs

Sampaio

Bernardino

2015

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Abstract. Information and data is the dominant value for today´s day-to-day corporate business, and its importance is still growing in this digital era and with the explosion in use of social media in recent years. However, ensure an effective and efficient security of data is largely neglected even if most companies assume that the corruption or loses of their data will be disastrous and a "life-threatening" situation, pointing the lack of financial resources for not assuring more proactive security measures. Backup systems are a precious resource, since its aim to recover data after its loss -data deletion or corrupted, and recover data from an earlier time. Open source represent a unique opportunity to save precious financial resources, especially for SMEs. In this paper, we made a comparison of Backup Open Source Systems features, evaluating if these tools are a viable alternative to the Proprietary software. The conclusions are positive. Bacula and Amanda, two of the three software systems reviewed, proved to be very comprehensive backup systems and real options for small companies and organizations.

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Learning and best practices for learning in open-source software communities

Cited by 27 publications

References 28 publications

A Comparative Study of Open-Source and Licensed CAD Software to Support Garment Development Learning

A Comparative Study of Open-Source and Licensed CAD Software to Support Garment Development Learning

An Empirical Study on Security Knowledge Sharing and Learning in Open Source Software Communities

Open Source Backup Systems for SMEs

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