Apologies for posting off-topic, but I thought this Call for Papers (below) would be of interest to the community.
Joe ____________________________ Dr. Joseph Feller Business Information Systems University College Cork http://www.josephfeller.com http://opensource.ucc.ie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Open Source in the Organization - A Special Issue of Syst�mes d'Information et Management Since the coining of the term "open source software" nearly four years ago, a growing body of rigorous research on the topic has emerged. However, much of this work has focused on technology and engineering issues, and on the motivations driving individual developers to participate in open source projects. Although there is evidence of wide-spread industry adoption of both open source products and of open source processes and models, little research has been done to better understand the role of open source software in mainstream business organisations and on the cost, maintenance, economics and legal issues arising from Open Source. For this special issue of SIM, we extend an open call for completed, original research on one or more of the following topics (or related areas): � Motivations, dynamics and challenges associated with the adoption of open source products by organisation. � Motivations, dynamics and challenges associated with the adoption of open source processes and business models by organisations. � Legal issues associated with the use of open source software products and processes, particularly intellectual property issues. � Human issues associated with the use of open source software products and processes, such as training and technology acceptance. � Issues of cost and maintenance associated with adoption of open source software. Guest Editors: � Dr. Joseph Feller, Business Information Systems, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, [EMAIL PROTECTED] � Prof. Brian Fitzgerald, College of Informatics Systems & Electronics Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, [EMAIL PROTECTED] � Dr. Frederic Adam, Business Information Systems, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Authors who are interested in submitting papers are encouraged to contact one of the guest editors for this special issue to discuss their planned contribution. Full submissions are due by November 30, 2002. Submissions should follow the formatting guidelines provided at http://opensource.ucc.ie/sim2002/ All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review. Submitting authors will be notified by January 31, 2003. Submissions are accepted in both French and English (reviewing and publication will be done in the language of submission). -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
