[AISWorld] Postdoctoral/Research Fellow Positions (x 2) in Open Source Software

[Brian.Fitzgerald]

Two Postdoctoral positions in open source software (Salary: Postdoc: €38,632- €50,029/Research Fellow: €56,369 - €61,423) at Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre

In spite of the popularity of Open Source and tens of millions of developers working on millions of OSS projects across the globe, the specifics of OSS project governance and developer on boarding has remained mostly ad-hoc. This research project seeks to establish a set of guidelines or best-practices for OSS project governance to help with the acquisition of new developers and the retention and promotion of existing contributors, and also ascertain how an interested developer would typically transition to become a core member in an OSS project. In terms of implementing the guidelines, the research will also investigate the possibility of developing a “bot” which could help in guiding newcomers and notifying project maintainers of any relevant updates. The implementation of InnerSource, the application of the open source development paradigm within organisations is also a focus in the research


About Lero:
Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre is Ireland’s national software research centre, headquartered at the University of Limerick and involving 12 Universities/Institutes of Technology in Ireland.

Informal enquiries regarding the post may be directed to Brian Fitzgerald (bf at lero.ie<mailto:bf at lero.ie>)

Closing date for applications is Monday 6th December 2021 at noon Irish time. Further details on the post and application process available at http://www.ul.ie/hrvacancies/ (choose ‘Research’ as vacancy type in Search)


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Prof Brian Fitzgerald, PhD, FICS, FBCS, CEng.
Director, Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software (www.lero.ie<http://www.lero.ie>)
Frederick Krehbiel Chair in Innovation, University of Limerick
Past-President, Association for Information Systems (www.aisnet.org<http://www.aisnet.org>)