FP7: Capacities - Revision history

Louridas: /* TODO */

2008-07-01T10:41:11Z

TODO

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	* Write to Pires		* Write to Pires
	* Gather partners		* Gather partners
	** SINTEF?
	** Korfiatis? Constantiou?		** Korfiatis? Constantiou?
			* Get LoS from IDABC
	* Write proposal		* Write proposal

Louridas: /* Partners */

2008-07-01T10:40:13Z

Partners

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	== Partners ==		== Partners ==
	* AUEB		* AUEB
			* GRNET
	* [http://www.sig.nl/ SIG]		* [http://www.sig.nl/ SIG]
	* SINTEF		* SINTEF - confirmed
	* [http://www.kdab.net KDAB] - confirmed		* [http://www.kdab.net KDAB] - confirmed

Dds: Changes based on comments by G. Gousios

2008-07-01T07:25:15Z

Changes based on comments by G. Gousios

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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	OSSLab aims to provide a laboratory where researchers will be able to run large-scale studies on the source code of thousands of real-world software systems and the data of the processes used to build them. Many important results in software engineering have come from empirical studies. Yet the difficulty of setting up realistic experiments often results in studies of a small number of systems or toy-problems programmed by students. This need not be so. The open source software movement has provided us with a goldmine of thousands of software systems whose code and process data are freely available. Studying these systems is easy in theory, but difficult in practice, as their data is scattered around in various repositories, formats, databases, and applications. Based on ~~the experience~~ ~~gathered~~ in the highly-successful IST project Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) we propose to gather code and process data in an open virtual laboratory, OSSLab. Researchers will be able to use OSSLab by uploading their programs related to the studies they want to perform, execute them on the laboratory’s huge data assets, and download and share the corresponding results. OSSLab will serve not only the software engineering community, but also the increasing number of researchers from other disciplines, like sociology, economics, management science, and psychology, who utilize in their studies empirical data from open source software projects.		OSSLab aims to provide a laboratory where researchers will be able to run large-scale studies on the source code of thousands of real-world software systems and the data of the processes used to build them. Many important results in software engineering have come from empirical studies. Yet the difficulty of setting up realistic experiments often results in studies of a small number of high-profile systems or toy-problems programmed by students. This need not be so. The open source software movement has provided us with a goldmine of thousands of software systems whose code and process data are freely available. Studying these systems is easy in theory, but difficult in practice, as their data is scattered around in various repositories, formats, databases, and applications. Based on work performed in the highly-successful IST project Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) we propose to gather code and process data in an open virtual laboratory, OSSLab. Researchers will be able to use OSSLab by uploading their programs related to the studies they want to perform, execute them on the laboratory’s huge data assets, and download and share the corresponding results. OSSLab will serve not only the software engineering community, but also the increasing number of researchers from other disciplines, like sociology, economics, management science, and psychology, who utilize in their studies empirical data from open source software projects.

	The main tasks associated with setting up OSSLab include the gathering and normalization of the data, the creation of an infrastructure that will allow researchers to run their code while taking into account fair resource allocation and security, facilities for sharing the data and building on each others results, and pilot studies demonstrating the utility of OSSLab to a wide scientific community.		The main tasks associated with setting up OSSLab include the gathering and normalization of the data, the creation of an infrastructure that will allow researchers to run their code while taking into account fair resource allocation and security, facilities for sharing the data and building on each others results, and pilot studies demonstrating the utility of OSSLab to a wide scientific community.

Dds: Add summary

2008-06-30T20:20:38Z

Add summary

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			== Summary ==
	aka SQO-OSS 2
			OSSLab aims to provide a laboratory where researchers will be able to run large-scale studies on the source code of thousands of real-world software systems and the data of the processes used to build them. Many important results in software engineering have come from empirical studies. Yet the difficulty of setting up realistic experiments often results in studies of a small number of systems or toy-problems programmed by students. This need not be so. The open source software movement has provided us with a goldmine of thousands of software systems whose code and process data are freely available. Studying these systems is easy in theory, but difficult in practice, as their data is scattered around in various repositories, formats, databases, and applications. Based on the experience gathered in the highly-successful IST project Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) we propose to gather code and process data in an open virtual laboratory, OSSLab. Researchers will be able to use OSSLab by uploading their programs related to the studies they want to perform, execute them on the laboratory’s huge data assets, and download and share the corresponding results. OSSLab will serve not only the software engineering community, but also the increasing number of researchers from other disciplines, like sociology, economics, management science, and psychology, who utilize in their studies empirical data from open source software projects.

			The main tasks associated with setting up OSSLab include the gathering and normalization of the data, the creation of an infrastructure that will allow researchers to run their code while taking into account fair resource allocation and security, facilities for sharing the data and building on each others results, and pilot studies demonstrating the utility of OSSLab to a wide scientific community.


	== TODO ==		== TODO ==
	* Prepare short summary
	* Write to Pires		* Write to Pires
	* Gather partners		* Gather partners
			** SINTEF?
			** Korfiatis? Constantiou?
	* Write proposal		* Write proposal

Dds: Add tiny summary

2008-06-26T10:52:26Z

Add tiny summary

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			aka SQO-OSS 2

	== TODO ==		== TODO ==
	* Prepare short summary		* Prepare short summary

Gousiosg: KDAB is now a confirmed partner

2008-06-12T07:24:27Z

KDAB is now a confirmed partner

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	* [http://www.sig.nl/ SIG]		* [http://www.sig.nl/ SIG]
	* SINTEF		* SINTEF
			* [http://www.kdab.net KDAB] - confirmed
	* KDAB

Dds: Add data

2008-06-12T07:03:09Z

Add data

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== TODO ==
* Prepare short summary
* Write to Pires
* Gather partners
* Write proposal

== Call information ==
* [http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=usersite.FP7DetailsCallPage&CALL_ID=122 FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-2: Call documents]
* [http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/events-20080418_en.html Information Event on the fourth Call for proposals under the e-Infrastructures Activity of the 'Capacities' Specific Programme, FP7]
* [http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/networking_en.html Networking Sessions of the FP7 'Capacities' Information Events]
* Contact person: [http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/ri-cnd/whoswho.htm Carlos Morais Pires]

== Partners ==
* AUEB
* [http://www.sig.nl/ SIG]
* SINTEF
* KDAB