Seminar by Dr. Daniel German (University of Victoria)

Speaker: Dr. Daniel M. German
                University of Victoria

Title: Disruptive technology: how git is spreading beyond software development

Date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

Time: 11AM

Place: EV 3.309

ABSTRACT

Due in part to Web services build around git, such as github and gitorious, git is becoming pervasive in software development.  In this presentation I will describe our work trying to understand the impact of git (and github). I will describe a study of 3 years on how the Linux developers and those using the Linux kernel collaborate and coordinate using more than 600 different git repositories. I will also describe several empirical studies we have performed on Github repositories and gists that show that Github (and by extension git) is being used in novel and unexpected ways.

BIO

Daniel M. German is Professor in the Department of Computer Science atthe University of Victoria, where he does research in the areas of mining software repositories, open source software engineering, and
intellectual property.