Fostering Collaboration of Academia and Industry by Open Source Software

David Baum, Pascal Kovacs, Richard Müller
2020 Software Engineering  
In 2017 and 2018 we released two of our research prototypes as open source. We explain our motivation and concerns at that time and compare them with our actual experience. We also describe how open source releases enabled collaboration with industrial partners. Finally, we show how research projects can extend their funding through grants for open source software. We share our experiences with the initiative Google Summer of Code and show how we overcame bureaucratical hurdles and how our
more » ... rch has benefited from participating in this program.
doi:10.18420/se2020_52 dblp:conf/se/BaumK020 fatcat:pojkqp2hq5f4dgj37hydmjlmji