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Call for Papers
Americas Conference on Information Systems
Connecting the Americas
Acapulco, Mexico
August 4-6, 2006
Minitrack - Open Source Software Development, Adoption, and Use


Free and open source software (OSS) has existed in various formats since 
the earliest days of computing. For example, UNIX has benefited greatly 
from the contributions and corrections submitted by numerous programmers 
in response to their own personal needs. In recent years, however, open 
source software has been diffused into the general computing populace, 
especially for those projects that have reached widespread usage such as 
Linux, Apache, and Sendmail. Within the IT industry, more and more 
mainstream corporations like IBM, Oracle, Apple, Cisco and Sun 
Microsystems have taken major initiatives to support various OSS 
platforms. Their endorsement further fuels its growth, and paves the way 
for businesses to adopt OSS as a serious, cost-effective IT solution. 
For example, by migrating to Linux platform, Amazon.com claims that it 
cut technology expenses by $17 million. In addition, OSS movement has 
already become an international phenomenon. Governments from various 
countries across the world such as Brazil, China, and the UK have openly 
promoted OSS as the preferred solution to build national IT 
infrastructures.
While the open source movement has captured the attention of many 
practitioners of IS, rigorous academic research on the subject has only 
started emerging. Researchers in many different fields have begun 
examining the unique organizational designs, social systems, project 
management, collaborative technologies, and product design methodologies 
inherent to open source communities. Much of the work has focused on 
understanding the individual motivations and collective structure in the 
communities themselves. This research offer new insights into the inner 
workings of open source, but much still needs to be learned about how 
open source development and use constitute a viable, sometimes 
preferable, option to traditional "closed source" alternatives.
We invite contributions that address business issues related to the 
development and use of open source software. We strongly encourage 
research incorporating creative or new applications of theory, 
methodologies, and/or data sources. Suggested topics include, but are 
not limited to, the following:
. Governance, leadership, and management in OSS communities
. OS communities' organizational structures
. Growth and development of OSS-based organizations
. Benefits and risks associated with the organizational and individual 
adoption of OSS
. Successful entrepreneurship via OSS
. Commercialization and business models of OSS products and communities
. Commercial sponsorship of OSS communities
. Attitudes toward OSS products
. Knowledge and technology transfer within OSS communities
. Intellectual property concerns within OSS communities
. Trust and social norms in OSS communities
. Licensing / legal concerns in OSS software
. OSS software engineering methodologies
. Security concerns for OSS software
. Application of OSS principles beyond software design
. Power and influence in OSS communities
. OSS adoption in foreign countries
. OSS and eGovernment
. Comparisons of OSS & proprietary software
. Adoption of OSS on the desktop
. Support metrics for OSS
. Case studies of successful conversions to OSS
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*Important Deadlines*
Abstract Submission: 	February 1, 2006
Paper Submission: 	March 1, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 	April 21, 2006
Final Copies Due: 	June 9, 2006

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*Guidelines for Submission*

    * Submit *abstracts* via email to *Donald Wynn* ([email protected]
      <mailto:[email protected]>) by *February 1, 2006*. This step is
      required to ensure that you have submitted your paper to the
      correct mini-track.

    * Submit *final papers* via the AIS Review System by *March 1,
      2006*. See the conference web site for details:
      http://amcis2006.aisnet.org/.

    * Submissions for consideration as *completed research papers* must
      not exceed a length of *5,000* words. Submissions for
      consideration as *research in progress papers* must not exceed a
      length of *2,500* words.

    * Authors can submit multiple papers but in general may present only
      once during the conference.

    * *Authors of the best papers* from this mini-track will be
      encouraged to submit an extended and revised version of their
      article to *a special issue of the Journal of Database Management
      (JDM) on Open Source Software. *


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