Hi all,
Passing this on in case it's of interest to anyone.
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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Subject: [Freesw] Call for papers: Standards and Open Source
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:47:58 -0700
From: Joel West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
for the HICSS-39 Session on
Standards and Open SourceA 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 Jos� State University School of Information Studies
College of Business Syracuse University
San Jos�, 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]>
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