3rd FLOSS Int. Workshop Announcement and Call for Paper

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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd FLOSS International Workshop on Free/Libre Open Source Software

Department of Economics
Universit=E0 di Padova (Italy)
July 2/3, 2009

FLOSS embraces many dimensions and it is of interest of very different
disciplines; we welcome submissions from various fields: economics &
management, sociology, law, IT & computer science. Both empirical
(monographs and case studies, econometric or experimental methods) and
theoretical approaches are eligible for the Workshop. In what follows we
suggest a (non exhaustive) list of topics that are certainly of =20
interest:
- Licensing terms and IPR (incentives for innovators, license
proliferation and incompatibilities, the future of IPRs, etc.).
- Innovation models (FLOSS based innovation, open innovation, user
innovation, public domain innovation, standards and interoperability,
appropriability, sustainability and competitive advantage, etc.).
- FLOSS production and organization of FLOSS communities (social and
technical structures, coordination and division of labor, code
architectures, motivation, incentives, leadership and conflict
resolution, etc.).
- Hybridization (degree of openness, business models, licensing terms,
firms=92 participation in FLOSS projects, etc.)
- From software to other complex systems (FLOSS boundaries, applications
in other industries and in non-code based settings, etc.).
- Private and public adoption of FLOSS (FLOSS and the public
administration, welfare impact, role of public policies, etc.).
- Competition between FLOSS and commercial software.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
We are pleased to announce that the keynote speakers of this third
workshop are:

- Jean-Michel DALLE - University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie

- Andrea BONACCORSI - Universita' di Pisa

Active audience participation has been the norm at past workshops and is
encouraged again this year. Each paper will be assigned to a discussant.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Authors are invited to electronically submit papers (MS Word or PDF
format) by March 31, 2009. Paper must be sent to [email protected]
Each paper should contain an abstract and provide the author(s) full
affiliation(s) and contact information. Authors of accepted papers will
be notified by April 20, 2009.

For more information, visit:
http://www.decon.unipd.it/personale/curri/manenti/floss/floss09.html

Questions can be addressed to the email address: [email protected]

CONFERENCE Scientific COMMITTEE:
Stefano Comino, Eric Darmon, Fabio M. Manenti, Moreno Muffatto, =20
Marialaura
Parisi, Dominique Torre, Alessandro Rossi, Cristina Rossi, Thomas Le
Texier, Jean-Benoit Zimmermann

Organizing Committee:
Stefano Comino (Universita' di Udine)
Fabio M. Manenti (Universita' di Padova)
Alessandro Rossi (Universita' di Trento)