Meeting Challenges and Surviving Success: The 2nd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering Joseph Feller Business Information Systems University College Cork Cork, Ireland +353-21-4903337
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2. W O R K S H O P T H E M E S The discussion will be organized around four key themes:
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Joseph Feller (Chair) University College Cork, IRELAND
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Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, IRELAND
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Frank Hecker, CollabNet, Inc., USA
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Scott A. Hissam, Software Engineering Institute, USA
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Kafim Lakhani, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
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Andr6 van der Hoek, University of California - Irvine, USA.
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The quality and maintainability of OSS products and tools. This includes, but is not limited to, the reliability, availability, security, and usability of OSS products and tools; the architectural characteristics of OSS products and tools; and the current and future roles played by OSS products and tools in different application spaces. Of particular interest is the phenomenon of "bootstrapping", i.e., the role played by OSS software (both existing and potential) in the development of OSS software.
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Since Making Sense of the Bazaar: The 1st Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering was held at ICSE 2001,
The replicability and portability of the OSS software engineering process. This includes, but is not limited to, dialogue and knowledge transfer between OSS and traditional software engineering approaches; comparisons between OSS and other methods of software engineering; and the extent to which traditional software developers are able to effectively adopt OSS tools and techniques.
interest in Open Source Software (OSS) has continued to gain momentum, both in the practitioner and research communities. The last year alone has seen the publication of several collections of research [1-4] dealing with both the theory and practice of OSS. Much of the work published to date focuses on the past and present of OSS. For The 2 "a Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, we are seeking a more future oriented approach. The goal of this year's workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss both the short and long term sustainability of OSS. The workshop will seek to address the quality and maintainability of OSS products and tools, the replicability and portability of the OSS software engineering process, the stability and sustainability of OSS developer and user communities, and the viability and profitability of OSS business models.
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The stability and sustainability of OSS developer and user communities. This includes, but is not limited to, the community-based management of knowledge, reputation and trust; mechanisms and practices for effective collaboration; and comparisons between company-led (or companyenabled) OSS development teams and emergent, volunteer communities.
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The viability and profitability of OSS business models. This includes, but is not limited to, the sustainability of pure-play OSS business models; the emergence of hybrid proprietary-OSS business models; and the impact of intellectual property law on OSS.
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3. W O R K S H O P F O R M A T Meeting Challenges and Surviving Success is an open, oneday workshop, with a maximum number of 35 participants. Accepted position papers will be published in both the workshop proceedings and on the workshop website at http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2002.
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include one book, papers published in international journals including 1EEE lnternet Computing and Journal of Software Maintenance, and numerous technical reports published by CMU including "Perspectives on Open-Source Software" [7]. Prior to his position at the SEI, Mr. Hissam held positions at Lockheed Martin, Bell Atlantic, and the US Department of Defense. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from West Virginia University. Kafim R. Lakhani is a PhD student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. He is the co-founder of The MIT Open Source Research Project [8] and was on the program committee of MIT's
The workshop will include four mini-presentations, delivered by selected participants, and four open discussion sessions. As was the case for The 1st Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, there will be a post-workshop debriefing following the close of the workshop day.
4. ABOUT THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald and Andr6 van der Hoek were the organizers of Making Sense of the Bazaar: The 1st Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering and are the guest editors of a special issue of lEE Proceedings - Software on Open Source Software Engineering [3]. Joseph Feller, PhD, is a lecturer with the Business Information Systems Group, University College Cork, Ireland. His research on Open Source Software appears in the proceedings of the 2001 IFIP 8.2 Working Group Conference, the 21st Annual International Conference on Information Systems, and the 5th and 6th Annual Conferences of the UKAIS. He is co-author (with Brian Fitzgerald) of Understanding Open Source Software Development [5]. Feller and Fitzgerald are also the guest editors of two special issues of the Information Systems Journal on Open Source Software [1-2]. Brian Fitzgerald, PhD, holds the Frederick A Krehbiel H Chair in Innovation in Global Business and Technology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has also held positions as Visiting Professor at Northern Illinois University in the US and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is Associate Editor for The Information Systems Journal, and Data Base, two leading international journals in the IS field. His publications include four books and more than 50 papers, published in many of the premier international journals, including Communications of the ACM, 1EEE Software, Information and Management, the Information
Development by Design Workshop: Collaborative Open Source Design of Appropriate Technologies. His work at BCG is focused on the intersection of emerging technologies, intellectual property and new organization forms. Previously he worked at GE Medical Systems. Andr6 van der Hoek, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science and a faculty member of the Institute for Software Research, both at the University of California - Irvine. His research interests include configuration management, software architecture, configurable distributed systems, and software engineering education. He has developed several CM systems, was chair of the organizing committee for the Tenth International Workshop on Software Configuration Management (held at 1CSE 2001) and is on the program committee for the Tenth International Symposium on the
Foundations for Software Engineering (FSE-I O).
5. R E F E R E N C E S [1] Fitzgerald, B. and Feller, J.(eds) Special Issue on Open Source Software, Vol. 1. Information Systems Journal. Vol. 11, No. 4. 2001.
Systems Journal, Information Systems and Operations Research, Information Technology & People, the International Journal of Information Management, and the Journal of Information Technology. He has presented research at a number of
[2] Fitzgerald, B. and Feller, J.(eds) Special Issue on Open Source Software, Vol. 2. Information Systems Journal. Vol. 12, No. 1. 2002.
international conferences, and spent more than fifteen years in industry, prior to entering academia. Frank Hecker is currently a Business and Licensing Consultant for CollabNet, Inc., a company adapting OSS practices and technologies to help businesses engaged in collaborative software development, and has more than 20 years experience in the computing industry. He previously held positions with America Online, Inc. and Netscape Communications Corporation, where he played a key role in the company's decision to release the source code for Netscape Communicator. He was one of three Netscape Fellows, and is a member of mozilla.org, the organization managing the development of the Mozilla Web browser and related software. He has also written several essays on OSS business issues (e.g. [6]). Scott A. Hissam is a senior member of the technical staff for the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he conducts research on component-based software engineering and Open Source Software. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh. His publications
[3] Feller, J., Fitzgerald, B. and van der Hoek, A. (eds) Special Issue on Open Source Software Engineering. lEE Proceedings - Software. Vol. 49, No. 1. 2002. [4] MIT Free/Open Source Research Community. Online Papers. http://opensource.mit.edu/online_papers.php [5] Feller, J., and Fitzgerald, B. Understanding Open Source Software Development. Addison-Wesley, London UK, 2002. [6] Hecker, F. Setting Up Shop: The Business of Open-Source Software. IEEE Software. Jan/Feb 1999. [7] Hissam, S., Weinstock, C.B., Plakosh, D. and Asundi, J. Perspectives on Open-Source Software. CMU/SEI-2001-TR019, Software Engineering Institute, November 2001. [8] MIT Free/Open Source Research Community. http ://opensource.mit.edu/
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