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From: Yuwei Lin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 08 January 2006 19:12
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Subject: CFP: Dynamics in the FLOSS social world (Reminder)

Apologies for cross-postings

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Dynamics in the FLOSS social world
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Call for Papers for a session on FLOSS at the biennial conference of the
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) to be
held in Lausanne (Switzerland) from 23rd to 26th August, 2006

This session aims to contribute to the understanding of the heterogeneity,
multiplicity and local enactments in the free/libre open source software
(FLOSS) development by encouraging more contextualised and qualitative
research. We encourage interested scholars to go beyond cognitive questions
on mitivations (e.g. why FLOSS developers
contribute) to explore fresh and challenging research questions emerging
from the heterogeneous and dynamic FLOSS social world. Our aim is to bring
the diversity and contingencies of this field to the front stage, including
issuses of shifting identities and contested identities (such as shifts
between users and developers and gendered politics). This is not to deny
that there are also integrating technologies and practices at work, bringing
people and code together in FLOSS projects. We thus invite interested
scholars to explore both the sentrifugal and centripetal forces of FLOSS
projects.

More specifically we encourage contributions on the following issues:

1)Discussions and analyses of the interdependency between FLOSS artefacts
and actors (users/developers) in a specific context;

2)Accounts of change of the FLOSS projects (e.g. institutionalisation,
disappearance);

3)Various ways in which FLOSS-development enact local politics;

4)Relationships between developers and users (working on-line and off-line);

5)How different cultural differences between actors influence the FLOSS
development?

6)Multiple roles and Identities (blurring boundaries between developers and
users)

7)Gender issues;

8)FLOSS development practices and processes;

9)Managing and coordinating diversity in FLOSS projects (e.g.
leadership, authorities)

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Deadlines

The session organising committee invites abstracts (up to 300 words) on any
of the issues raised above. Abstracts should be sent via e-mail to Yuwei Lin
(yuwei{at}ylin.org) and Lars Risan (lars.risan{at}tik.uio.no) by 15 January
2006. Decisions on these will be communicated to authors by the 1st of March
2006. Guidelines for preparing and presenting papers are available at
http://www2.unil.ch/easst2006/guidelines.htm. For more information about
EASST 2006 conference please visit
http://www2.unil.ch/easst2006/callpapers.htm.

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Yuwei Lin | yuwei at ylin dot org
http://www.ylin.org

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