Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) has transformed the software industry. As noted by other authors in this issue, academic information technology (IT) is already realizing many benefits by adopting open software; such benefits include reduced cost, absence of user restrictions and vendor lock-in, and consistency with traditional academic values of openness and sharing. The greatest benefit of th...

Many successful free/open source software (FOSS) projects start with the premise that their contributors are rarely colocated, and as a consequence, these projects are cases of global software development (GSD). This article describes how the GNOME Project, a large FOSS project, has tried to overcome the disadvantages of GSD. The main goal of GNOME is to create a GUI desktop for Unix systems, a...

This is a proposal for a panel presentation to be held during the OSS2010 conference in South Bend, IN. The purpose of this panel will be to disseminate the findings from the related FOSS2010 workshop, a CCCsponsored exploratory workshop held in Irvine, California in February. At the OSS conference we wish to give first a report of what was learned at the FOSS workshop, and then to glean import...

Foss and Zachary (2003) Foss, Palmowski (2005) studied the probability of achieving a receding boundary on time interval random length by walk with heavy-tailed jump distribution. They have proposed developed new approach that allows one to generalise results Asmussen (1998) case arbitrary stopping times wide class nonlinear boundaries, obtain uniform over all times. In this paper, we consider ...

Free open source software (FOSS) projects expose rich development, evolutionary, and collaborative data from which researchers have formed theories and conclusions about the FOSS development ecosystem. However, little work has been done to determine whether FOSS projects are analogous to proprietary development efforts. We propose several axes along which taxonomies of FOSS and proprietary proj...

In the past few years we've seen many catastrophic natural disasters, most recently the Haitian and the Chilean Earthquakes. Others include the 2004 In-dian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar in 2008. Because these events are rare and often impact poor countries, the development of information systems that ...

Free and open source software (FOSS) is considered by many, along with Wikipedia, the proof of an ongoing paradigm shift from hierarchically-managed and market-driven production of knowledge to heterarchical, collaborative and commons-based production styles. In such perspective, it has become common place to refer to FOSS as a manifestation of collective intelligence where deliverables and art...