Announcement: Open Source Yearbook 2005 released

Please, would you be so kind to forward this information to the community 
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Thanks!

Best regards,
Robert Gehring

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Open Source Jahrbuch 2005 released

On occasion of CeBIT 2005, the second issue of the german "Open Source 
Jahrbuch" (Open Source Yearbook) has been released. 

The "Open Source Jahrbuch 2005" is the most comprehensive source in german 
language of information on all topics of open source developments - not only 
free and open source software. Its 35 articles on 500+ pages cover a broad 
range of themes, from case studies of OSS deployment to issues in economics 
and "culture as open source" (Siva Vaidhyanathan).

The articles are arranged in seven chapters:

(1) Fallbeispiele (case studies)
(2) Technik (technology)
(3) Ökonomie (economics)
(4) Recht und Politik (law and politics)
(5) Gesellschaft (society)
(6) Open Content
(7) Open Innovations

Authors include among others Joachim Sturm (German Federal Administration), 
Jens Mundhenke (Kiel Institute of World Economics), Jason Matusow 
(Microsoft), James Bessen (Boston University), Eric Maskin (Princeton 
University) and Eric von Hippel (MIT).

Editors of the "Open Source Jahrbuch 2005" are computer scientists Bernd 
Lutterbeck, Robert A. Gehring and Matthias Bärwolff of the Technical 
University of Berlin, and the complete book was created by a team of students 
supported by the editors.

The book is available in print (19,90 EUR) and all articles can be downloaded 
for free from <http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de>. (However, donations are 
welcome ;-) The printed issue contains an additional index as well as a 
glossary.

Most authors could be convinced to use a (CC) license, so the articles are 
usually redistributable for non-commercial purposes.

The work on next year's issue will start at the end of April. We have some 
(limited) capacities to translate articles from English into German, so 
proposals for contributions are welcome in English as well as in German. 

For the 2006 issue, we are especially interested in receiving proposals for 
articles discussing how the progress in medicine can be supported by using 
open source software and methods. For example, evidence based medicine (EBM) 
often uses open source software and shares information in ways quite similar 
to the open source community.

-- 
Von/From: Dipl.-Inform. Robert Gehring
E-Mail:   rag-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]
privat:   [email protected]

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