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Early research studies on open source software development often betrayed a mild surprise that loosely coordinated networks of volunteers could manage the design and implementation of highly comple software products. In the past few years, a wider research community has become increasingly aware of the tremendous contribution that open source development is making to the software industry, business and society in general. Software engineering researchers are exploring OSS specifically with respect to development tools and methodologies, while organizational scientists and economists are keen on understanding how open sources have brought large communities of people to help each other effectively.This book is an important step in the direction of a fuller understanding of the OSS phenomenon. It collects the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Open Software held in Como, Italy, from June 8th to June 10th, 2006. OSS 2006 was the foundation conference of the IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13 on Open Source Software, and attracted many researchers from all over the world interested in how OSS is produced, in its huge innovation potential in many different application fields and in OSS innovative business models. The 20 full papers of this volume were selected via a rigourous refereeing process among more than 100 submissions; 12 additional submissions, in view of their interest, were selected for publication in a more concise form.

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Table of Contents

Foundations and Rationale of Open Source software.- On the Weickian Model in the Context of Open Source Software Development: Some Preliminary Insights.- Conceptual Modelling as a New Entry in the Bazaar: The Open Model Approach.- Evolution of Open Source Communities.- Tools and Infrastructures for OSS development.- Retrieving Open Source Software Licenses.- Beyond Low-Hanging Fruit: Seeking the Next Generation in FLOSS Data Mining.- Call for Quality: Open Source Software Quality Observation.- Knowledge Management in OSS.- Towards an Ontology for Open Source Software Development.- From Individual Contribution to Group Learning.- The role of mental models in FLOSS development work practices.- A Robust Open Source Exchange for Open Source Software Development.- of OSS in Companies and PAs.- The Organizational Adoption of Open Source Server Software by Belgian Organizations.- The Introduction of OpenOffice.org in the Brussels Public Administration.- Networks of Open Source Health Care Action.- Licensing Services: An "Open" Perspective.- Perceptions and Uptake of Open Source in Swedish Organisations.- A study on the introduction of Open Source Software in the Public Administration.- Exploring the potential of OSS in Air Traffic Management.- Empirical Analysis of OSS.- Institutional Entrepreneurs and the Bricolage of Intellectual Property Discourses.- Life cycle of Defects in Open Source Software Projects.- Insiders and outsiders: paid contributors and the dynamics of cooperation in community led F/OS projects.- Adopting Open Source for Mission-Critical Applications: A Case Study on Single Sign-On.- Participation in Free and Open Source Communities: An Empirical Study of Community Members' Perceptions.- Collaborative Maintenance in Large Open-Source Projects.- CaseStudies and Experiments.- Comparing macro development for personal productivity tools: an experience in validating accessibility of Talking Books.- A tool to support the introduction of GNU/Linux desktop system in a professional environment.- A Framework for Teaching Software Testing using F/OSS Methodology.- Organization of Internet Standards.- Contributor Turnover in Libre Software Projects.- Critical Success Factors for Migrating to OSS-on-the-Desktop: Common Themes across Three South African Case Studies.- Impact of OSS on Social Networks.- Communication Networks in an Open Source Software Project.- Impact of Social Ties on Open Source Project Team Formation.- Social dynamics of free and open source team communications.- Posters.- How is it possible to profit from innovation in the absence of any appropriability?.- Producing and Interpreting Debug Texts.- A graphical installation system for the GNU/Linux Debian distribution.- The micro-dynamics of open source software development activity.- Development Platforms as a Niche for Software Companies in Open Source Software.- Reusable Parser Generation from Open Source Compilers.- Open Source Software Development (OSSD) Based On Software Engineering.- Open Source in Web-based Periodicals.- Software Patents and Open Source Software in the European Union: Evidences of a Trade-Off?.

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Early research studies on open source software development often betrayed a mild surprise that loosely coordinated networks of volunteers could manage the design and implementation of highly comple software products. In the past few years, a wider research community has become increasingly aware of the tremendous contribution that open source development is making to the software industry, business and society in general. Software engineering researchers are exploring OSS specifically with respect to development tools and methodologies, while organizational scientists and economists are keen on understanding how open sources have brought large communities of people to help each other effectively. This book is an important step in the direction of a fuller understanding of the OSS phenomenon. It collects the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Open Software held in Como, Italy, from June 8th to June 10th, 2006. OSS 2006 was the foundation conference of the IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13 on Open Source Software, and attracted many researchers from all over the world interested in how OSS is produced, in its huge innovation potential in many different application fields and in OSS innovative business models. The 20 full papers of this volume were selected via a rigourous refereeing process among more than 100 submissions; 12 additional submissions, in view of their interest, were selected for publication in a more concise form.

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