Call for Papers Empirical Research on Free/libre Open Source Software
نویسندگان
چکیده
Over the past decade, the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) phenomenon has revolutionized the ways in which organizations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use information systems and services, making it an increasingly important topic of research for information systems researchers. FLOSS has moved from a curiosity to the mainstream: it has become a useful instrument for educators and researchers, an important aspect of e-government and information society initiative and a consideration in all technology business plans (e.g., Fitzgerald 2006).
منابع مشابه
Introduction to JAIS Special Issue on Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software
Kevin Crowston School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
متن کاملSelf-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development
This paper provides empirical evidence about how free/libre open source software development teams self-organize their work, specifically, how tasks are assigned to project team members. Following a case study methodology, we examined developer interaction data from three active and successful FLOSS projects using qualitative research methods, specifically inductive content analysis, to identif...
متن کاملStudying free software with free software and free methods
Free, Libre and Open source software (FLOSS) is an intriguing subject for study. Academic studies of FLOSS have quickly expanded over the past 5 years approaching the topic from software engineering, economics, information systems, sociology, social psychology to name just a few. The pre-print repository at MIT now has over 192 papers and even that is only a small cross-section of the research ...
متن کاملAn Open Source Collaboration Infrastructure for Calibre
The study of Free and Open Source (Libre) software and the benefits provided by its processes and products to collaborative software development has been somewhat ad hoc. Each project wishing to use tools and techniques drawn from Libre software conducts its own research, thus duplicating effort, consequently there is a lack of established community practice on which new projects can draw. Long...
متن کاملHow the FLOSS Research Community Uses Email Archives
Artifacts of the software development process, such as source code or emails between developers, are a frequent object of study in empirical software engineering literature. One of the hallmarks of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects is that the artifacts of the development process are publicly-accessible and therefore easily collected and studied. Thus there is a long histor...
متن کامل