Measuring Software Innovation with Open Source Software Development Data

EM Brown, C Osborne, P Cihon… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces a novel measure of software innovation based on open source
software (OSS) development activity on GitHub. We examine the dependency growth and …

A Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development

C Osborne, P Sharratt, D Foster, M Boehm - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Governments are increasingly employing funding for open source software (OSS)
development as a policy lever to support the security of software supply chains, digital …