• Summarize the current state-of-the-art research with regard to the use of Web 2.0 technologies in software development. Some Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, facebook, blogs and tags have already in part been adopted by software developers and by development environments. The workshop will highlight pertinent research and tools.
• Explore how Web 2.0 technologies in software development could be further leveraged, in particular to support distributed and team-based development. Some Web 2.0 technologies such as twitter are still fairly new and it is unclear if and how they could improve team-based software development tools.
• Investigate to which extent the “socially open” attitude of Web 2.0 applies to software development. Web 2.0 applications are increasingly data-driven and the key advantage of Internet applications is the extent to which users add their own data. By the end of the workshop we hope to have a notion of how to balance architecture of participation and individual productivity. A promising route that we hope to address is how data collection and analysis techniques as used in the field of software repository mining can be enriched with data provided by software engineers or collected from the way they interact with their development tools. We will also discuss how “socially open” software development relates to open source development.
• Explore how Web 2.0 technologies can be incorporated into software engineering processes and methods.

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