Luis Ibáñez works as Senior Software Engineer at Google Inc in Chicago. Opinions expressed in this site are his own.You can find him in github at: http://www.github.com/luisibanezand in twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/luisibanezHe previously worked as a Technical Leader at Kitware Inc., and Director of Open Source Community Development at the Open Source EHR Agent (OSEHRA). At Kitware he was closely involved in the development of open source software for medical imaging applications, in particular, working with the Insight Toolkit (ITK).Luis is a strong supporter of Open Access, and one of the editors of the Insight Journal, an OA Journal that enforces the verification of reproducibility. In collaboration with other instructors, Luis taught a course on Open Source Software Practices at RPI between 2007 and 2013, and also at the State University of New York at Albany between 2011 and 2014.Luis Ibáñez received a B.S. in Physics from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia) in 1989 and a M.S. in Optics from the same university in 1994. He received a D.E.A and Ph.D. degrees from the Universite de Rennes I (Rennes, France) in 1995 and 2000, respectively. In 1999, Luis Ibáñez joined the Division of Neurosurgery of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and participated as a member of the MIDAG and CADDLab groups. His work at UNC was related to the development of algorithms for 2 and 3D registration applied to image guided surgery. He also participated as developer of the INSIGHT Registration and Segmentation Toolkit sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Luis Ibáñez joined Kitware, Inc. in February 2002 where he was one of the main developers of the Insight Toolkit (ITK) coordinating its maintenance with other developers and the user community; he is also one of the main developers of the Image Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) and participated in crafting the operational principles of the Insight Journal. Luis Ibáñez is a strong supporter of Open Access, and the verification of reproducibility in scientific publications and is a regular speaker in ITK training courses, and in events disseminating the principles of Open Source. In August 2014, Luis joined Google Inc as Software Engineer, to work with the corporate engineering team in New York city.
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Jason, Jesus,
Thanks for the great interview.
It is very interesting to see how Bitergia is raising awareness about the importance of monitoring the health of a community, and providing easy-to-use tools for measuring key aspects of community activity.
This understanding is fundamental for empowering communities to evaluate their condition and to redirect resources towards the areas where more community work is needed.
I found particularly important your comments about monitoring the influx of new contributors into a project, as well as retaining experienced contributors who know the history and inner workings of the project.
Fully agree with the point you made about the necessity of these metric tools to be open source.
Look forward to see these metrics being adopted, computed and displayed on a regular basis for most open source projects.
Thanks
Luis
Nicole,
Thanks for the great article.
Excellent illustration of the actual flow of value in a collaborative network. In particular, how in-kind contributions can make the bulk of the economic transactions in an open environment.
I'll make sure to use this example, and your perspective, the next time I'm explaining open source economics.
Thanks.