Friday Lunchtime Lecture: mapping the open source landscape

Libraries.io is a free utility that helps developers and maintainers make more informed decisions about the software they use. In this lunchtime lecture Ben takes a look at the techniques Libraries.io uses to ‘map the open source landscape’, presents some of the issues surrounding software development, distribution and packaging and finally talks about why Libraries.io is much more than a discovery service. About the speaker Ben Nickolls is a software developer by training but a product person at heart. These days you’re just as likely to find him scrawling on an A3 pad as you are staring at a terminal. Outside of the office Ben enjoys designing board games and racing bicycles.