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
   1. Purpose
      1. gain visibility for Kitware
      2. social impact
      3. recognize community
   2. experience
   3. participants
      1. who are the authors
      2. who is the company
      3. who are affiliated collaborators
2. Community
   1. A matter of scale (effects of scale on the community)
   2. The daily cycle:Day-to-day collaboration
   3. Practical tools for open source communities
   4. managing open source projects (leadership, contributions, etc.)
3. Open Source Myths and Misunderstandings
   1. quality
      1. Quality- the myth of "free" software
      2. Practical software process
         1. warranties vs commercial software
4. Business Models
   1. support
   2. consulting
   3. research
   4. platform approach
   5. dual license
   6. struggles with open versus closed
5. Open-Science
   1. The Scientific Method
   2. Coopting the Method
   3. Regaining the method
6. Case Studies
   1. VTK
   2. ITK
   3. CMake / CDash
   4. IGSTK
   5. ParaView
   6. GCC_XML
7. 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
   4. Internet Freedom: http://www.eff.org/
   5. Electronic Frontier Foundation
   6. Open Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmlzW980i5A http://web.media.mit.edu/~dang/opengov.html
   7. Wikileaks Freedom of Information.
8. 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

Potential Tools for Writing the Book

In (current) order of preference

1. DocBook Wiki
2. MoinMoin DocBook
3. Plone
4. PmWiki with the WikiPublisher plugin
5. CVS/Suversion + LaTeX