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Call for Chapters:

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

A book edited by Stefan Koch and published by Idea Group, Inc.

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2002

Introduction

Open source software development has generated increasing interest in the last years, both in academic circles and the software industry. Especially Linux, but also several other widely adopted projects like GNU project's utilities and libraries, the Perl and Tcl programming languages, and the Apache Web server have sparked the interest in the resulting products and their special form of development.

Overall Objective of the Book

This book aims at publishing original academic work on Open Source software development. This wide area entails many facets, including the special development process performed by a large number of geographically dispersed programmers, community issues like coordination and communication, motivations of the participants, and also economic and even legal issues. Regarding the development process, whose adherence to software engineering standards and guidelines is often debated, there is still a scarcity of quantitative accounts on Open Source projects and communities. Especially the effort expended by all participants would be of high interest as a basis for comparisons to the efficiency of commercial development practices. Also, a mixture between more 'traditional' approaches and the Open Source process have been proposed as being of very high potential, but have not yet been thoroughly explored.

The ways in which the 'virtual teams' of Open Source development communities form, interact, communicate and coordinate also seem of particular interest. Several tools and technologies are in use to support these activities, and studies of their usage and efficiency in different projects are encouraged. In addition, psychological and social issues like motivational aspects, political behaviour and analogies with academic research could be explored. Other questions include the economic viability of the Open Source movement, business models, legal issues, its implications for the software industry for example regarding the implementation of open standards, and in special application areas like public administration or teaching.

Possible Topics

Recommended Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Case studies of Open Source projects, their participants and/or their

development process

• Communication and coordination in Open Source projects: Organisational

forms and tools/technologies used

• Open Source software development processes

• Adoption of software engineering practices in Open Source projects

(during all phases of the life-cycle)

• Software development processes as a mixture of traditional approaches

and Open Source (e.g. 'gated open source communities')

• Motivation of participants in Open Source projects

• Hosting of Open Source projects

• Business models for Open Source

• Evolution of both Open Source software artefacts and the Open Source

community overall

• Legal issues of Open Source software

• Implications of the Open Source movement for the software industry

• Implications of the special attributes of Open Source software for usage

in functional areas like public administration or teaching

• Usage and adoption of Open Source software in different application

areas and/or countries

• Adoption of Open Source principles in other areas than software

development

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 2-5 page manuscript proposal on or before December 31, 2002, clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by January 31, 2003 about the status of their proposals, and authors of accepted chapter will receive chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 1, 2003. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by 2-3 reviewers on a double-blind basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., publisher of the "Idea Group Publishing", "Information Science Publishing" and "IRM Press" imprints in 2004.

Important Dates

Chapter proposals due: 31.12. 2002 Proposal acceptance notification: 31.1. 2003 Full chapters due: 1.5. 2003

World Wide Web

For this book project, a website has been established which will provide the Call for Chapters, any new announcements and additional information.

http://wwwai.wu-wien.ac.at/~koch/oss-book/

Contact Information

Please send all inquiries and submissions to the Editor:

Stefan Koch Department of Information Business University of Economics and BA Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria Tel.: (+43-1) 31336/5206 Fax: (+43-1) 31336/739 e-Mail: stefan.koch@wu-wien.ac.at http://wwwai.wu-wien.ac.at/~koch/uni.html