Call for papers: Standards and Open Source

                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                     for the HICSS-39 Session on 
                      Standards and Open Source

A special session considering the overlap between open source software and IT standards will be held at the 39th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS-39 will be held January 4-7, 2006 in the island of Kauai. Manuscripts are due by June 15, 2005.

Sponsorship

Joel West                       Kevin Crowston
San José State University       School of Information Studies          
College of Business              Syracuse University
San José, CA 95192-0070         NL 3000 DR Rotterdam
    USA                             The Netherlands
mailto:[email protected]       mailto:[email protected]  

The planned session is sponsored by two HICSS minitracks:
	Open Source Software Development
		Kevin Crowston and Hala Annabi, co-chairs
		http://floss.syr.edu/HICSS2006Call
	Standards and Standardization
		Joel West and Rolf Wigand, co-chairs 
		http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/west_j/HICSS/39/
The session will be scheduled in such a way that participants in the joint session will also be able to attend one (or possibly both) of these minitracks in their entirety.

Session Description 

This session will focus on the overlap between the issues of open source and IT standards.

Possible theoretical lenses for comparing these two artifacts are:

    * role of user innovation in the creation and re-invention of the artifact
    * technical communities as a means for organizing production of the artifact
    * variation in the multidimensional degrees of openness to stakeholder participation
    * application of Actor-Network Theory explaining the relationship of individual firms and technologies

Examples of empirical phenomena that relate open source and standards include:

    * use of IP by firms to undercut or extract rents from communities, producers and users
    * the relationship of open source implementations and formal de jure standardization
    * the role of open source implementations as de facto standards

Other topics at the intersection of standards and open source are also encouraged.

About HICSS

For those who are not familiar with HICSS, this is a medium sized conference (600 attendees) that is known for its collegiality and how happy attendees are to be spending January in Hawaii. The overall conference attracts primarily Computer Science and Information Science scholars, but also include numerous researchers from management, economics and other social sciences. Submissions from a wide range of disciplines are encouraged.

Additional Information

For further information, see the complete call for papers at the minitrack website
	http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/west_j/HICSS/39/OpenSource.html 
contact either of the session co-chairs:
	Joel West <[email protected]>
	Kevin Crowston <[email protected]>

-- 
Joel West		mailto:[email protected]
Co-chair, HICSS-39 Minitrack on Standards and Standardization
http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/west_j/HICSS/