{"id":3797,"date":"2023-09-25T08:50:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iot-ngin.eu\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2023-09-25T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:10:02","slug":"the-role-of-open-source-software-in-the-energy-sector-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iot-ngin.eu\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/the-role-of-open-source-software-in-the-energy-sector-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Open-Source Software in the Energy Sector (2\/2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the second part of a mini-series about our recently published paper \u201cThe Role of Open-Source Software in the Energy Sector\u201d<\/a>. In the first part<\/a> of this mini-series, we have discussed on the general implications and properties of open-source software. In this part, we recapitulate the findings of the analysis of open-source software in the energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we have done, is to create a collection of all open-source software we could find that relates to this sector. A few smaller collections were found on this matter, but in this domain we provide the biggest collection of software with a total of 388 projects, ranging from small hobbyist ones to big foundation-based platforms. If you are interested, this catalog and the other data relevant for this analysis can be found at: https:\/\/git.rwth-aachen.de\/acs\/public\/publications\/2023-oss-in-energy-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first questions we wanted to answer is: \u201cIs open-source really a commercial thing or just done by universities\u201d, and \u201care there synergies between commercial actors and non-commercial ones\u201d. To answer these questions, we needed to classify the projects into categories. The categories we chose \u201cAcademia\u201d for universities and non-commercial research institutions. Profit oriented companies are categorized \u201cCommercial\u201d, non-profit organizations are \u201cNon-Profit\u201d. It was not possible to clearly distinguish private contributions, so these fall into the \u201cOther\u201d category. As we wanted to investigate the synergies, it would not be enough to classify software projects, but instead we manually categorized the single contributors for the project, identified by e-mail address. A total of 754 mail addresses and domain classifications were needed to classify a significant number of the contributors in almost all projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following table presents the results of this classification:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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