ALERT: semantic event-driven collaborative platform for software development

Abstract

In this paper we present the ALERT system that improves free/libre open source software (FLOSS) coordination by maintaining awareness of community activities through real-time, personalized, context-aware notification. The ALERT system is an active collaboration platform, i. e. a virtual actor that interacts with the developers, processes and recognizes various kinds of interactions and suggests actions on the basis of these, thus enabling developers to work better together.