Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (eBook)

Preface 6
Organization 9
Contents 19
Full Papers 25
FOCSE: An OWA-based Evaluation Framework for OS Adoption in Critical Environments 26
Open Source Collaboration for Fostering Off- The- Shelf Components Selection 40
From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: An Empirical Study of the Lifecycle of Volunteer Community Projects 54
Project Entity Matching across FLOSS Repositories 68
Can Knowledge Management be Open Source? 81
EMERGENT DECISION-MAKING PRACTICES IN FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FLOSS) DEVELOPMENT TEAMS 93
Experiences on Product Development with Open Source Software 107
Exploring the Effects of Coordination and Communication Tools on the Efficiency of Open Source Projects using Data Envelopment Analysis 119
Innovation in Open Source Software Development: A Tale of Two Features 131
Corporate Involvement of Libre Software: Study of Presence in Debian Code over Time 143
Sprint-driven development: working, learning and the process of enculturation in the PyPy community 155
Using Repository of Repositories (RoRs) to Study the Growth of F/OSS Projects: A Meta-Analysis Research Approach 169
Community Structure, Individual Participation and the Social Construction of Merit 183
OpenBQR: a framework for the assessment of OSS 195
Network Analysis of the SourceForge.net Community 209
Short Papers 223
Influence in the Linux Kernel Community 224
EDOS Distribution System: a P2P architecture for open- source content dissemination 230
Reusing an open source application – practical experiences with a mobile CRM pilot 237
The role of trust in OSS communities – Case Linux Kernel community 243
Authenticating from multiple authentication sources in a collaborative platform 249
Learning and the imperative of production in Free/ Open Source development 255
Open source technologies for visually impaired people 261
Different Bug Fixing Regimes? A Preliminary Case for Superbugs 267
Free/Open Services: Conceptualization, Classification, and Commercialization 273
Surveying Industrial Roles in Open Source Software Development 279
Guiding the Discovery of Open Source Software Processes with a Reference Model 285
Effect of Coupling on Defect Proneness in Evolutionary Open-Source Software Development 291
The Use of Open Source Software in Enterprise Distributed Computing Environments 297
Shared Assumption Concerning Technical Determination in Apache Web Server Developer Community 303
Learning Through Practical Involvement in the OSS Ecosystem: Experiences from a Masters Assignment 309
Release Management in Free Software Projects: Practices and Problems 315
CONTEXT-DEPENDENT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY FOR OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE 321
Benefits and Drawbacks of Open Source Software: An Exploratory Study of Secondary Software Firms 327
Introducing Usability Practices to OSS: The Insiders’ Experience 333
Perceptions on F/OSS Adoption 339
Open Source Software and Open Data Standards as a form of Technology Adoption: a Case Study 345
Free/Open Source Software Adoption, Public Policies and Development Indicators: An International Comparison 351
Levels of Formality in FOSS Communities 357
Stakeholder value, usage, needs and obligations from differnet types of F/ LOSS licenses 363
Panels 369
Introduction to Panel Discussions at the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems – OSS 2007 370
Legal issues for free and open source software in government 372
Data and analyses sharing to support research on free/libre open source software 374
Tutorials 376
Introduction to OSS 2007 Tutorial Program 377
How to Gather FLOSS Metrics 379
EDOS-Tools Tutorial: EDOS Tools for Linux Distributions Dependencies Management and Quality Assurance 381
Quality Specification, Testing and Certification of Bespoken, Open Source and Commercial Off- The- Shelf Systems 383
Workshops 385
Introduction to Workshops at the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems – OSS 2007 386
1st International Workshop on Trust in Open Source Software (TOSS) 387
Open Source Software and Product Lines 2007 390
Toward a New Industrial Organization? OSS in Economic and Managerial Perspective 392
2nd International Workshop on Public Data about Software Development ( WoPDaSD 2007) 395
FOSLET 07 – Workshop on Free and Open Source Learning Environments and Tools 398
Posters 401
List of Posters Displayed at The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems 402