From: Yuwei Lin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 September 2004 09:17
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Subject: CFP on free/libre open source software
Call for Papers
Free, Libre and Open Source Software Communities
A special issue of Knowledge, Technology & Policy
Guest Editors:
Ruben van Wendel de Joode, from the Delft University of Technology;
Yuwei Lin from the University of York, and Shay David from Cornell
University.
Free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) has gained dramatic
attention from varying economic and social vectors. Its adoption by both
private and public organizations is accelerating as a preferred software
development environment. Also, online and hard-copy scholarly
communications about FLOSS are being produced at a pace to match. Yet,
despite the growing interest, many topics regarding FLOSS software and
the communities in which the software is created remain unexplored and
ill-understood. Here, we identify three clusters of questions to be
answered:
* Organizational structure and processes within or across FLOSS
communities. How is FLOSS software created in practice? How is knowledge
shared? How are bugs solved? Are there deviations from the utopia of the
bazaar model? Both qualitative and quantitative data is missing on this
subject.
* Ethics and policy implications. Given that FLOSS is rapidly
adopted, a growing concern will be related to issues like ethics and
policy formation. Should governments adopt or have a FLOSS policy? Who
are the other stake holders? How are the virtues of the 'network
society' changing in response to FLOSS?
* International Perspectives. Even though FLOSS seems to be a
global phenomenon, most of the attentions and resources are focused in
the West. How are software developers who come from other countries like
India, Brazil, etc. getting involved in FLOSS? Will FLOSS increase or
decrease the digital divide?
This will be the second special edition on open source software
in Knowledge, Technology & Policy (See Vol XII, Number 3, 1999.) The
editors of this edition would like to chart the progress that FLOSS
research has made since. We would like to invite authors to write
scientific state-of-art papers on either of the above topics but we will
would also consider accepting papers on other topics but which are in
the spirit of this purview.
The deadline for submission is December 1st. Prospective authors
are should send a 150 word abstract to the editors before submitting
their papers. Please send submissions to all three editors
simultaneously and mind the submissions directions
(http://www.moted.org/kt%26p/submit.htm).
For more information, please see http://www.moted.org/kt%26p/
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Yuwei Lin
Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU)
Department of Sociology
University of York
UK
Tel. +44-1904-434742
Fax. +44-1904-433043
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~yl107
http://www.york.ac.uk/org/satsu/
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