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>Asunto: [CITASA] Six new papers on opensource.mit.edu + One new thesis
>De:"Karim R. Lakhani" <[email protected]>
>Fecha: Dom, 22 de Mayo de 2005, 2:15 pm
>Para: [email protected]
>
><sorry for any x-posting>
>
>Hello Folks
>
>I have uploaded the following papers on our website. Many thanks to all
>the authors for their submissions.
>
>Best
>
>Karim <freezing in Boston>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Paper 1
>Authors: Fleming, Lee & David Waguespack
>
>Title:
>Penguins, Camels, and Other Birds of a Feather: Brokerage, Boundary
>Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities
>http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/flemingwaguespack.pdf
>
>Abstract:
>What types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders
>of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an
>engineering culture, we find that future leaders must first make strong
>technical contributions. Beyond technical contributions, they must then
>integrate their voluntary communities in order to avoid the ever present
>danger of forking and balkanization. This is enabled by two correlated but
>distinct social positions: brokerage, and boundary spanning between
>technological modules. An inherent lack of trust associated with brokerage
>positions can be overcome through physical interaction or contributions
>within technological boundaries. Successful leaders are thus the product
>of strong technical contribution and a structural position that can bind
>the community together.
>
>Paper 2
>Author: Iannaci, Federico
>Title:
>Coordination Processes in Open Source Software Development: The Linux
>Case Study
>http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/iannacci3.pdf
>
>Abstract:
>Although open source projects have been subject to extensive study, their
>coordination processes are still poorly understood. Drawing on
>organization theory, this paper sets out to remedy this imbalance by
>showing that large-scale open source projects exhibit three main
>coordination mechanisms, namely standardization, loose coupling and
>partisan mutual adjustment. Implications in terms of
>electronically-mediated communications and networked interdependencies are
>discussed in the final sections where a new light is cast on the concept
>of structuring as a by-product of localized adjustments.
>
>
>Paper 3
>Author: Shah, Sonali
>Title:
>Open Beyond Software
>http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/shah4.pdf
>
>Abstract:
>The "community-based" model has generated many of the innovations we use
>on a daily basis. The social structure created by this model has
>cultivated many entrepreneurial ventures and even seeded new industries
>and product categories. In this paper, I discuss three elements of this
>model and present four exemplars of the model that span fields and
>centuries. I conclude by reframing our view of the innovation process as
>driven by the activities of firms and research institutions and discussing
>implications for firms and policy.
>
>Paper 4 (in Spanish)
>Author: Carlos Emilio Biscay
>
>Title: Open Source en el e-learning: ¿Una cuestión de mente?
>- Análisis del fenómeno del Open source en el e-learning, situación
>actualy tendencias -
>http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/biscay.pdf
>
>Abstract
>Primeramente vamos a ver ¿Qué es el Open source? ¿Cuáles son sus objetivos
>y sus características fundamentales?. En segundo lugar haremos un
>recorrido histórico de los últimos años, identificando los principales
>desarrollos del Open source y sus tendencias, especialmente en el área de
>la educación superior.
>En tercer lugar mostramos el Proyecto Sakai, donde un grupo de
>Universidades de Primer nivel están uniendo fuerzas para integrar y para
>sincronizar su software educativo en una colección de herramientas de Open
>source para e-learning. A continuación haremos mencionaremos los
>principales aplicaciones de OS en general. Seguidamente, he de tratar de
>poner de relieve los aspectos técnicos y
>psicológicos que están presentes en el Open Source y sus protagonistas y
>las razones económicas, políticas y culturales que se vinculan o crean un
>contexto favorable al crecimiento de las soluciones de open source en el
>mercado y especialmente en mercado del e-learning. Finalmente y como
>síntesis de estas cuestiones describimos el caso concreto de la
>Universidad de Wisconsin, que actualmente junto a otras instituciones
>educativas se ha sumado en el proyecto Sakai.
>
>
>Paper 5
>Authors Ioannis Samoladas, Ioannis Stamelos
>
>Title
>Assessing Free/Open Source Software Quality
>http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/samoladasstamelos.pdf
>
>Abstract:
>According to its proponents, one of the most acclaimed advantages of
>Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) is its superior quality. However, this
>suggestion is an open issue, since there is little concrete evidence to
>justify whether F/OSS quality is indeed better or worse than that of
>proprietary software products. The general perspective of this article is
>to discuss the current status of F/OSS quality and to assess its
>performance in various aspects of quality, based on existing literature.
>Specifically, this article will provide some answers to various questions
>raised by the assertion concerning the quality of F/OSS. In
>this regard issues addressed in this article include the quality
>framework, through which F/OSS quality should be investigated and the
>performance of F/OSS in various quality factors within this quality
>framework. Answers to these issues are given by providing evidence from
>various research papers, empirical studies and reports based on experience
>about the quality of F/OSS products. The overall results seem to indicate
>that F/OSS has achieved an acceptable level of quality, although there is
>more to be done in order to outperform proprietary software.
>
>Paper 6
>Author: Imhorst, Christian
>
>Title:
>Anarchy and Source Code - What does the Free Software Movement have to
>do with Anarchism?
>http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/imhorst.pdf
>
>Abstract:
>What does the hacker ethic have to do with anarchism? Why does Richard
>Stallman, an outstanding personality of the free software movement,
>described himself as an anarchist? We should not imagine the anarchists of
>the Free Software Movement to be like the cartoon image: A scruffy looking
>lunatic, with a crazy glint in his eyes and bristling with weapons.
>Instead of chaos, Stallman postulates a new form of order for the
>intellectual property in the terms of the hacker ethic - the access to
>knowledge should be free, decentralized, anti-bureaucratic and
>anti-authoritarian.
>
>Bachelor's Thesis
>
>Author: Frost, Jonathon
>Title:
>Some Economic & Legal Aspects of Open Source Software
>http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/frost.pdf
>
>Abstract:
>The emergence of open source software as a viable economic model has risen
>to the forefront in the debate on the future of the information technology
>industry. However, at first glance, the open source software development
>model is strikingly enigmatic and counterintuitive. To help better
>understand this phenomenon, this paper, through market data and economic
>theory, proceeds to ask and answer three related questions. First, what is
>the economic relationship between open source software development
>communities and proprietary software firms? Second, what are the resulting
>effects on market innovation and innovation incentives? And third, what
>legal mechanisms allow for the sustainability of open source software and
>should they be expanded or reduced? This paper concludes that open source
>activity appears to be generating four economic effects, whose net effect
>on innovation in the software market is ambiguous.
>
>--
>Karim R. Lakhani
>MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group
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