June 26 & 27, 2008, Rennes, France
Call for Papers

Home page of the Conference:
http://e.darmon.free.fr/floss/workshop.html

Aims and Scope:

The FLOSS’2008 workshop aims at discussing the multiple issues coming around the diffusion of F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software). The first workshop (Nice Sophia Antipolis 2007) addressed three main topics:

• a) the FLOSS production and the organization of Open source communities;
• b) FLOSS public and private uses;
• c) the impacts of FLOSS on software industry organization.

We still welcome submissions falling into these three fields.

Beside, in this second workshop, we also encourage submissions related to two related areas:

• a) cooperation within other type of online communities (as file-sharing, file storage & back-up communities, other type of knowledge-producing communities, etc.) ;
• b) generalization of the Open model to other domains (open models, degrees of openness, hybrid models).

List of Topics:

Since FLOSS embraces many dimensions, we welcome submissions from various fields (economics & management, sociology, law, IT & computer science). Both empirical (monographs & case studies, econometric or experimental methods) and theoretical approaches are eligible. The following (non exhaustive) topics will be considered:

• E-government & Public adoption of FLOSS – Private uses of FLOSS – FLOSS & Elearning
• FLOSS in Business practices/contexts (IS, ERP, CRM)
• Individual & Collective appropriation of FLOSS (monographs & case studies, econometric studies)
• Social & topological issues on developer’s networks
• Management & Organizational features of developers’ communities
• FLOSS & Related Software distribution strategy (piracy, free software)
• Hybridisation, Open Models, parents and standards
• Degrees of openness (transparency, standard compliance, interoperability, licensing)
• Communication & cooperation in online/distant systems (knowledge production, file sharing, backup sharing)

Scientific Committee

• Richard Arena (DEMOS/GREDEG-CNRS, University Nice Sophia Antipolis);
• Bernard Conein (LAMIC, University Nice Sophia Antipolis);
• Andrea Bonaccorsi (University of Pisa);
• Eric Brousseau (Economix-CNRS, Université Paris X),
• Jacques Cremer (GREMAQ, Université Toulouse1);
• Jean-Michel Dalle (IMRI, University Paris Dauphine);
• Eric Darmon (CREM-CNRS, University of Rennes1);
• Nicolas Gaudeul (University of East-Anglia);
• Michel Gensollen (ENST-Paris);
• Rashiv Gosh (UN-Maastricht, MERIT Infonomics);
• Nicolas Jullien (MARSOUIN, ENST-Bretagne);
• Karim R. Lakhani (MIT, Sloan School of Management);
• Mikko Mustonen (Helsinki School of Economics);
• Thierry Pénard (CREM-CNRS, University of Rennes1);
• Cristina Rossi (Politecnico di Milano);
• Fabrice Siiriainen (CREDECO/GREDEG-CNRS, University Nice Sophia Antipolis);
• Dominique Torre (DEMOS/GREDEG-CNRS, University Nice Sophia Antipolis);
• David Versailles (CReA, Centre de Recherche de l'Armée de l'Air, Salon de Provence);
• Jean-Benoît Zimmermann (GREQAM-CNRS, Université Aix-Marseille2).

Time Table & Registration

Submissions (full papers or extended abstracts) should be sent before April 19th to : eric.darmon(at)univ-rennes1.fr with copy to dominique.torre(at)gredeg.cnrs.fr - replace (at) with @ in the emails.

• Deadline for submission: Extension to April 19th
• Notification of participation decision: May 5th
• Deadline for payment of registration fees at reduced rate: May 30th. Reduced rates are 120€ (standard) and 80€ (students). Majored rates are 180€ and 120€ respectively.
• Delivery of final papers: June, 1st
• Workshop : June, 26-27th

Contact and Website

Updated information about this workshop will be available at the following URL:

http://perso.univ-rennes1/eric.darmon/floss

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