The 4th FLOSS workshop took place in Jena on July 1 and 2, 2010. Those were two very busy (and hot!) days, with a tight schedule, but everything seems to have gone quite well: no missing or lost participants, no major computer problem and no disruption in the supply of coffee!
While the time given for presentations (20 mn) was often tight for many participants, we managed to keep on schedule and even have some interesting discussions during the 10 remaining minutes for each papers. From some feedback I got, people enjoyed the diversity of the topics presented, and I certainly learned quite a lot myself, notably on the variety of types of data that are used to study the OS phenomenon.
The workshop had a clear empirical slant, as research seems to move from theory to testing. Among the topics I was most interested in were the patterns in the career of OS developers, how OS teams are able to effect radical changes in their software design, and how firms get involved in OS development. What I missed was more work on OS development networks, how OS developers build a reputation, and how OS projects manage to attract participants.
The programme is available here, with links to all papers that were presented. A press release was also distributed (read it here among other places).
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The Fourth FLOSS Workshop will take place in Jena (Germany) on July 1 and 2, 2010. The theme of the workshop will be “Business models, social networks and collaborative knowledge development”.
The call for papers is available at http://floss2010.pbworks.com, and can be downloaded at http://floss2010.pbworks.com/f/Call+for+Papers.pdf.
Two special guests will give introductory lectures about their research in that domain: Jürgen Bitzer will present his research on “Returns to Open Source Software Engagement: An Empirical Test of the Signaling Hypothesis”, and Rebeca Méndez-Durón will present her paper “Returns from Social Capital in Open Source Software Networks”.
Information about Jena is available on the workshop’s website (links at the top). Jena is a very pleasant and very old university town in what used to be East Germany. It is very well linked by high-speed trains from Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.
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Open source software and innovation. Presentation made on August 3, 2009 at the 3rd Jena Summer Academy on “Innovation and Uncertainty”. How much innovation is there in open source software? How efficient is the open-source development model? Could open source software be a threat to innovation, or does it rather support and accelerate proprietary innovation?
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I show in a new paper that open source software, when it competes with proprietary software, makes software users better off than proprietary software alone could. Conversely, proprietary software, by competing with open source software, guarantees better social outcomes than if open source existed alone.
The paper is available at SSRN and RePEc.
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