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Experimentation Practices in Indie Game Startups
Elizabeth Bjarnason, Johan Linåker, Fabian Fagerholm
Small independent (indie) game startups face fierce competition when developing games with limited time, budget, and resources. Continuously testing and experimenting with new idea…
Adopting InnerSource in a Public Sector Organization: A Case Study
Muhammad Usman, Johan Linåker, Deepika Badampudi +1
InnerSource (IS) is increasingly viewed as a way to improve large-scale software development. However, evidence on its adoption in public sector organizations remains limited. This…
Advancing Digital Government: Integrating Open Source Software Enablement Indicators in Maturity Indexes
Johan Linåker, Sachiko Muto
Context: Open Source Software (OSS) is a vital public good, included across most of modern software stacks, significantly impacting GDP and national tech growth, while supporting i…
A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects
Johan Linåker, Cailean Osborne, Jennifer Ding +1
The proliferation of open large language models (LLMs) is fostering a vibrant ecosystem in artificial intelligence (AI). However, the methods of collaboration used to develop open…
Pre-Release Experimentation in Indie Game Development: An Interview Survey
Johan Linåker, Elizabeth Bjarnason, Fabian Fagerholm
[Background] The game industry faces fierce competition and games are developed on short deadlines and tight budgets. Continuously testing and experimenting with new ideas and feat…
Soft-lockins in Public Sector Acquisitions of Open Source Software-solutions: A Case Study on a Municipal E-Service Platform
Per Persson, Johan Linåker
Background: Open Source Software (OSS) is often seen as an option to mitigate risks of lock-ins. Yet, single-vendor OSS can still result in soft lock-ins due to knowledge asymmetri…
Sustaining Maintenance Labor for Healthy Open Source Software Projects through Human Infrastructure: A Maintainer Perspective
Johan Linåker, Georg J. P. Link, Kevin Lumbard
Background: Open Source Software (OSS) fuels our global digital infrastructure but is commonly maintained by small groups of people whose time and labor represent a depletable reso…
Open Source Software in the Public Sector: 25 years and still in its infancy
Johan Linåker, Gregorio Robles, Deborah Bryant +1
The proliferation of Open Source Software (OSS) adoption and collaboration has surged within industry, resulting in its ubiquitous presence in commercial offerings and shared digit…
Public Sector Open Source Software Projects -- How is development organized?
Johan Linåker, Björn Lundell, Francisco Servant +3
Background: Open Source Software (OSS) started as an effort of communities of volunteers, but its practices have been adopted far beyond these initial scenarios. For instance, the…
Sustaining Open Data as a Digital Common -- Design principles for Common Pool Resources applied to Open Data Ecosystems
Johan Linåker, Per Runeson
Motivation. Digital commons is an emerging phenomenon and of increasing importance, as we enter a digital society. Open data is one example that makes up a pivotal input and founda…
How to characterize the health of an Open Source Software project? A snowball literature review of an emerging practice
Johan Linåker, Efi Papatheocharous, Thomas Olsson
Motivation: Society's dependence on Open Source Software (OSS) and the communities that maintain the OSS is ever-growing. So are the potential risks of, e.g., vulnerabilities being…
A Contribution Management Framework for Firms Engaged in Open Source Software Ecosystems -- A Research Preview
Johan Linåker, Björn Regnell
Context and motivation: Contribution Management helps firms engaged in Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems to motivate what they should contribute and when, but also what they sh…
Requirements Analysis and Management for Benefiting Openness
Johan Linåker, Krzysztof Wnuk
Requirements Engineering has recently been greatly influenced by the way how firms use Open Source Software (OSS) and Software Ecosystems (SECOs) as a part of their product develop…
How Firms Adapt and Interact in Open Source Ecosystems: Analyzing Stakeholder Influence and Collaboration Patterns
Johan Linåker, Patrick Rempel, Björn Regnell +1
[Context and motivation] Ecosystems developed as Open Source Software (OSS) are considered to be highly innovative and reactive to new market trends due to their openness and wide-…
A Survey on the Perception of Innovation in a Large Product-Focused Software Organization
Johan Linåker, Husan Munir, Per Runeson +2
Context. Innovation is promoted in companies to help them stay competitive. Four types of innovation are defined: product, process, business, and organizational. Objective. We want…
Collaboration in Open Government Data Ecosystems: Open Cross-sector Sharing and Co-development of Data and Software
Johan Linåker, Per Runeson
Background: Open innovation highlights the potential benefits of external collaboration and knowledge-sharing, often exemplified through Open Source Software (OSS). The public sect…
Requirements engineering in open innovation: a research agenda
Johan Linåker, Björn Regnell, Hussan Munir
In recent years Open Innovation (OI) has gained much attention and made firms aware that they need to consider the open environment surrounding them. To facilitate this shift Requi…
Open innovation using open source tools: a case study at Sony Mobile
Hussan Munir, Johan Linåker, Krzysztof Wnuk +2
Despite growing interest of Open Innovation (OI) in Software Engineering (SE), little is known about what triggers software organizations to adopt it and how this affects SE practi…
Public Sector Platforms going Open: Creating and Growing an Ecosystem with Open Collaborative Development
Johan Linåker, Per Runeson
Background: By creating ecosystems around platforms of Open Source Software (OSS) and Open Data (OD), and adopting open collaborative development practices, platform providers may…
Editorial: Special Issue on Collaborative Aspects of Open Data in Software EngineeringJohan
Johan Linåker, Per Runeson, Anneke Zuiderwijk +1
High-quality data has become increasingly important to software engineers in designing and implementing today's software, for example, as an input to machine-learning algorithms an…
Motivating the Contributions: An Open Innovation Perspective on What to Share as Open Source Software
Johan Linåker, Hussan Munir, Krzysztof Wnuk +1
Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems have reshaped the ways how software-intensive firms develop products and deliver value to customers. However, firms still need support for str…
How to Enable Collaboration in Open Government Data Ecosystems: A Public Platform Provider's Perspective
Johan Linåker, Per Runeson
Objective: Our objective is to explore how public entities in the role of platform providers can address this issue by enabling collaboration within their OGD ecosystems, both in t…
A Community Strategy Framework -- How to obtain Influence on Requirements in Meritocratic Open Source Software Communities?
Johan Linåker, Björn Regnell, Daniela Damian
Context: In the Requirements Engineering (RE) process of an Open Source Software (OSS) community, an involved firm is a stakeholder among many. Conflicting agendas may create miss-…
A method for analyzing stakeholders' influence on an open source software ecosystem's requirements engineering process
Johan Linåker, Björn Regnell, Daniela Damian
For a firm in an open source software (OSS) ecosystem, the requirements engineering (RE) process is rather multifaceted. Apart from its typical RE process, there is a competing pro…