Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
4:15PM, Wednesday, May 8, 2002
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
http://ee380.stanford.edu
Topic: Accelerating Software Development Through Collaboration
Speaker: Dr. Larry M. Augustin
VA Software
About the talk:
In early 1999, VA Software launched a project to understand how
the Internet development community had been able to produce
software faster and with higher quality than comparable
commercially available alternatives. Our goal was simple:
determine how to make more software development projects
successful.
We discovered that successful Internet community projects
employed a number of practices that were not well characterized
by traditional software engineering methodologies. We now refer
to those practices as Collaborative Software Development or CSD.
Late in 1999 we developed the SourceForge platform to make it
easy for even small software development projects to employ those
practices, and in November of 1999 launched the SourceForge.net
web site based on the SourceForge platform. The site was an
overwhelming success, and in less than two years, grew to support
more than 27,000 software development projects and over a quarter
million software developers worldwide.
SourceForge.net affords us an unequaled test bed for
understanding CSD. In response to demand from companies seeking
to enable CSD within their organizations, we announced a
commercial version of the SourceForge platform, SourceForge
Enterprise Edition, in August 2001. This presentation will
describe the principles of CSD, the software development pain
points those principles address, and our experience enabling CSD
with the SourceForge platform.
About the speaker:
Larry Augustin, CEO, founded VA Software in 1993 as a PhD student
in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. A strong
advocate of collaborative software development, Augustin was the
visionary behind SourceForge.net, which quickly became the
world's largest Open Source development Internet site following
its launch in November 1999. Augustin serves on the board of
directors for OSDL, the Open Source Development Lab, and Linux
International. Prior to VA Software, Augustin was a research
associate in the Program Analysis and Verification Group (PAVG)
at Stanford University where he worked on rapid prototyping
languages, software engineering, hardware verification, and
software prototyping environments. Prior to Stanford, he worked
as a systems engineer on high-speed switched digital services at
AT Bell Laboratories. Larry Augustin holds a PhD and an MS in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a BSEE from
the University of Notre Dame.
Contact information:
Larry Augustin
lma@vasoftware.com
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