Invitation: UniForum Chicago General Meeting Open To The Public

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Wayne Schneidman

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The Inner Source Revolution: How corporations create commercial software using open source methodologies

Dr. Vijay Gurbani

Monday June 19th 2017 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Bolingbrook Fountaindale Public Library
Meeting Room A
300 West Briarcliff Road
Bolingbrook, IL 60440

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Join us at the Bolingbrook Fountaindale Public Library for what will be a very interesting, intriguing and useful presentation and discussion, open to the public, hosted by Dr. Vijay K. Gurbani on the methodologies and techniques of building strong and stable  software for use in the corporate environment using open source.

This will be of interest to anyone involved in software development in the corporate world.

Please note this meeting is on a Monday. (Our meetings have usually been on Tuesdays in the past.)

Abstract

We define corporate open source (COS) as applying the precepts and methodologies prevalent in the open source development community for creating industrial-strength software projects in a corporation for internal use. It may seem that open source style development - using informal processes, voluntary assignment to tasks, and having few financial incentives - may not be a good match for commercial environments. Our work not only demonstrated that under the right circumstances corporations benefit from open source development techniques, but it also laid the groundwork for the research initiative now called "Inner Source", or the applications of best practices and culture from the open source domain applied to internal corporate software development efforts.

As usual, we will be having a "Meeting After the Meeting" for talk and drinks afterwards at the Gordon Biersch restaurant in the Bolingbrook Promenade outside mall. The link goes to the restaurant's Bolingbrook website with a clickable, expandable map.

Bio

Dr. Vijay K. Gurbani is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories' End-to-End Mobile Network Research department in Nokia Networks. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, a M.Sc. in Computer Science, both from Bradley University; and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology.

His current work is focused on scalable analytic architectures and algorithms for autonomic 5G networks. His research interests are multimedia protocols, security and privacy in multimedia protocols, peer-to-peer networks, distributed programming and open/inner source. Vijay's research has resulted in products that are used in national and international service provider networks. He has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, 5 books, 7 granted U.S. patents and 18 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFCs.

Getting to the meeting

The next General meeting of UniForum Chicago will be at:

        Bolingbrook Fountaindale Library
        http://www.fountaindale.org/
        Meeting Room A (1st floor)
        300 West Briarcliff Road
        Bolingbrook, IL 60440

Use the library's FAQ (http://www.fountaindale.org/about/faq) as a source for how to get to meeting.


For more information about UniForum Chicago contact in...@uniforum.chi.il.us.


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