The preliminary program of the workshop is now available on the workshop website.
The registration to the conference has to be made online.

Aims and scope

Over the past few years, the development of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has attracted the attention of academics, practitioners and policy-makers. These OS initiatives were primarily launched by communities of motivated “user-developers”, building original social networks. For FLOSS to last, the OS must be diffused to new populations of users (individuals, businesses, government agencies).

The motivation of these populations to adopt FLOSS may however differ from those of initial user-developers. Besides, such an evolution questions the architecture of the whole software industry and the cooperation and competition between the FLOSS model and the traditional model of Software production and development. The objective of this workshop is to study the consequences of the transition between the two phases and aims to build an active European research network dedicated to this issue, which could lead to a second workshop followed by a collective publication either in a special

List of Topics

We welcome submissions on one of these three topics:

1. OSS Production and Communities of developers:

• Network of developers: structure of the innovation network, type of links/relationships inside the network, trust
• Organisational and Managerial issues linked to FLOSS development: individual and social incentives and motivation, modularity and team organisation, centralised versus decentralised monitoring of FLOSS communities
• Quality, safety and liability of FLOSS

2. Impacts of OSS on the Software Industry:

• Competition and cooperation between proprietary software and FLOSS
• Reengineering of the Software Industry and of Software-editors strategies
• Hybridisation between Commercial and Non commercial uses of FLOSS
• Business models for Commercial Free Software (case studies and longitudinal analyses ; theoretical analysis and welfare impact)
• Licences, Contracts and Intellectual Property Rights Management: Law and Economics analysis of FLOSS licences ; Interoperability, standards and competition issues

3. Private and Public uses of FLOSS:

• Typology of users and of motives for adoption o Empirical analysis of users’ characteristics
• Communities of users: role in software diffusion, role in software development.

Empirical as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. Extended abstract will be considered yet a higher priority will be given to full papers. Since FLOSS embraces many aspects, we would like to bring together scientists from different disciples such as Economics, Business & Management, Sociology, Law, Information and Communication Sciences.

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)

Organization Committee

Eric Darmon (CREM, Université Rennes1-CNRS); Elisabeth Duruisseau (GREDEG-CNRS); Laurence Gervasoni (GREDEG-CNRS); Fabrice Le Guel (DEMOS/GREDEG-UNSA-CNRS); Thomas Le Texier (CReA, Centre de Recherche de l'Armée de l'Air, Salon de Provence and DEMOS/GREDEG); Muriel Mathery (GREDEG-CNRS); Benoît Masquin (I2C/ GREDEG-UNSA-CNRS); Stéphanie Missonier (RODIGE/GREDEG UNSA-CNRS); Patrick Musso (I2C/ GREDEG-UNSA-CNRS); Stéphane Ngo-Maï (DEMOS/GREDEG-UNSA-CNRS); Alain Raybaut (DEMOS/GREDEG-CNRS); Sylvie Rochhia (DEMOS/GREDEG); Fabrice Siiriainen (CREDECO/GREDEG-UNSA-CNRS); Dominique Torre (DEMOS/GREDEG-UNSA-CNRS).

Time Table

• First announcement and CFP: November 2006
•  Deadline for submission: January 31st
• Notification of participation decision: February 28th
•  Deadline for payment of registration fees at reduced rate: March 31th. Normal rates are 120€ (standard) and 80€ (students). Majored rates are 180€ and 120€ respectively.
• Delivery of final papers: April 30th
• Workshop : May 31st / June 1st

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

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

For any information, please feel free to contact us by e-mail:

•  Dominique TORRE Professor GREDEG-CNRS (DEMOS) University Nice Sophia Antipolis 250, rue A. Einstein 06560 Valbonne Cedex dominique.torre@gredeg.cnrs.fr
• Eric DARMON Associate Professor CREM-CNRS University of Rennes 1 7, Place Hoche - CS 86514 35065 Rennes Cedex eric.darmon@univ-rennes1.fr