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# Open Commercial Development, by Lawrence Mandel and Jeffrey Liu from IBM Canada
I picked the talk on Code Reading and Review because I have been code reading and reviewing for years. I find a lot of strategy on code reading and reviewing Benjamin talked about is similar to what I have been using and I picked the talk on Open Commercial Development because I would like to learn more about the IBM insight of open source development and find their insight to be completely different from what I believe in.
= Summary & Comment =
== Code Reading and Review ==
Speaker: Benjamin Smedberg
* Open Source definition and licensing
* Open Commercial Development.
The first part of the presentation is generally, highlighting the open source definition from the internet website such as opensource.org, microsoft.com, ibm.com, apple.com, etcThey highline highlighted some of the key definition such as: free redistribution, project must include source code, derived works, integrity of the author’s source code and distribution of license.
The second part of the presentation is suppose to be about open commercial development, which is suppose to be a new hybrid development model that takes aspects of both the open and proprietary development models to provide a new model for the commercial software development process as defined in the symposium event description but based on what I understand from the talk, open commercial development is not a new development model that is created by IBM. Instead, it is an old development modal that has failed many times based on historic facts. The word, “open” in open commercial development is extremely misleading because open commercial development is not open source. Basically, open commercial development is a transparent development process for which they get user to participate when they are developing new software. In general, they are trying to apply open source technical to development as oppose to what they usually use a “closed” development modal. By applying the open source technical, they are trying to get direct customer involvement into project in order to improve software quality. I find the material and strategy which they have presented to be very similar to the agile development technique and they are trying to make money out of the free direct customer and opening source community input without crediting the contributor.
=Speaker and Speaker’s Views on Open Source=
I find the view on open source from the speakers of the two presentations to be completely different.
=Conclusion=
The symposium is a great way to learn about the newest idea in open source. It is a great way to know about new idea, it is a great way to meet new people, it is a great way to know open source better. I have become a better programmer by attending to the talks. I am amazed how people are willing to share their precious knowledge which made them so successful. I learnt to read code better, create better user interface, manage a high traffic website, about the different point of view in open source, about the open source community and how to work with them. Those are knowledge that I cannot learn from anywhere else. Moreover, I got the chance to see and meet with many amazing people from Mozilla, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, SourceForge and more. I am definitely coming back to the FSOSS next year.