Sophia Antipolis

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“The diffusion of FLOSS and the Organisation of the Software Industry: From Social Networks to Economic and Legal Models”

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First International Workshop
Nice - Sophia Antipolis
May 31st / June 1st 2007

Call For Paper & Time Schedule - Final Program -  Some pictures ! -  Acknowledgments



Call For Paper & Program


Final program  [ May 31st ; June 1st ]  [PDF]



Thursday, May 31st



10:30 Registration
10:45 Welcome Address by J.-L. Ravix (Head of GREDEG-CNRS) and presentation of the workshop by D. Torre (GREDEG-CNRS/DEMOS, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), E. Darmon (University of Rennes 1, CREM-CNRS) and T. Le Texier (CReA)
11:00 – 13:00

Plenary session (chaired by Jean-Benoit Zimmermann, GREQAM-CNRS)
13:00
Buffet
14:15 – 16:15
Sessions A1 and A2
A1 : Cooperation and Competition between F/LOSS and Proprietary Software on Software Markets
Chair: P. Schröder		 A2 : Leadership and organization of F/LOSS Communities
Chair: B. Conein

Alex Gaudeul (University of East Anglia-Norwich and ESRC Centre for Competition Policy), The number and market share of open source and proprietary software in a mixed industry model

Discussant: Y. Spiegel

Paola Giuri (LEM, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies), Francesco Rullani (LEM, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and IVS - Copenhagen Business School) and Salvatore Torrisi (University of Bologna), A test of Lazear's theory entrepreneurship in the Open Source Software virtual community

Discussant: A. Niedermayer

German D. Lambardi (Toulouse School of Economics) Code Development: Open vs. Proprietary Source

Discussant: M.L. Parisi

Michaël Vicente (UTC Compiègne, COSTECH) Crowding out effects and FLOSS Durability

Discussant: R. Arena

Eric Darmon (Université de Rennes 1 and CREM-CNRS), Thomas le Texier (CReA and GREDEG-CNRS) and Dominique Torre (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, GREDEG/DEMOS-CNRS), Commercial or Open Source Software:Winner-take-all competition, Partial adoption and Efficiency

Discussant: P. Schröder

Inna Lioubareva and Barbara Feledziak (EconomiX, Université Paris 10), Authority, labour diffusion, and conflict resolution in commons based peer production: the cases of Debian and Take the Bus project

Discussant: N. Lazaric

16:15 – 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 18:30
Sessions B1 and B2
B1 : Economic & Social Organization of F/LOSS Communities
Chair: N. Lazaric 		B2 : Developers incentives & Participation in F/LOSS Communities
Chair: A. Gaudeul

Didier Demazière (CNRS, laboratoire Printemps), François Horn (CLERSE, IFRESI) and Marc Zune (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Individual and organizational approaches of voluntary participation in FLOSS : an analysis based on the case of Spip

Discussant: F. Rullani

Oliver Alexy and Joachim Henkel (Technische Universität München) Promoting the Penguin: Who is Advocating Open Source Software in Commercial Settings?

Discussant: N. Jullien

Marco Weiss (Goethe University Frankfurt), Designing OS efficiently : a comparative organizational analysis

Discussant: A. Hussenot/S. Missonier		 Florian Perret  (OMI, Université de Reims), Hybridization, regulation between trade and not trade concerns: case of production forms of FLOSS
Discussant: F. Rentocchini

Richard Arena (GREDEG/DEMOS-CNRS and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis) and Bernard Conein (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis), Knowledge Based Networks in Open Source Communities 

Discussant: J.-B. Zimmermann

Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University) The incentive to participate in Open Source Projects: a signaling approach

Discussant: D. Torre
20:30 Gala Dinner at Restaurant "L'Univers" (Vieux Nice, 54 boulevard Jean Jaures, 06300 Nice)

Friday, June 1st


10:30 – 11:45
 Sessions C1 and C2
C1 : Hybrid models
Chair: F. Rullani		 C2 : License terms and IPR
Chair: J.-L. Gaffard

Nicolas Jullien (M@ARSOIN, ENST-Bretagne) and Jean-Benoît Zimmermann (GREQAM-CNRS), Free.Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) : lessons for intellectual property rights management in a Knowledge-based Economy

Discussant: R. A. Gosh

Stefano Comino (Universita di Trento), Fabio M. Manenti (Universit`a di Padova,) and Maria L. Parisi (Universit`a di Brescia), From Planning to Mature: on the Determinants of Open Source Take Off

Discussant: L. Muselli

Matthijs den Besten (Oxford e-Research Center), Jean-Michel Dalle (Univ. Paris 6)  and Fabrice Galia (ESC Dijon), The allocation of Collaborative Efforts in Large Open Source Software Projects

Discussant: A. Gaudeul

Laure Muselli (CEPN, Univ Paris 13), Business  Models and the payment of Open Source Software Publishers: mutualisation, an original business model

Discussant: M. Vicente

Associated paper: Andrea Bonaccorsi and Dario Lorenzi (University of Pisa), Monica Merito (Laboratory of Economics and Management, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies), and Cristina Rossi (Politecnico di Milano), Preliminary evidence on firms’ participation in Open Source project: reflections upon a tentative research agenda

Associated paper: Bernard Traversat (Sun Microsystems Corporation), Sun Winning Mantra Combining Open Source and Close Source Development to build more reliable, secure, and scalable software
11:45 – 13:00

Round Table: Production, Diffusion and Public/Private uses of F/LOSS (chaired by Jean Michel Dalle (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, IMRI)

  • N. Klotz (Blackboard, Open Source Club of Sophia Antipolis Foundation)
  • M. Buffa (I3S, CNRS, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
  • C. Nahaboo (iLog WebCore)
13:00 – 14:30 Buffet
14:30 – 15:00

Plenary session: Next objectives and agenda of the Research Project
15:00 – 17:00

Sessions D1 and D2
D1 : OS and the architecture of Software Markets
Chair: Y. Spiegel		 D2 : Public sector applications
Chair: N. Lorenz

Kevin Boudreau (HEC Paris), Too Many Complementors? Evidence on Software Developers

Discussant: P. Musso

Francesco Rentocchini (University of Bologna) and D. Tartari (Italian National Centre for informatics in the PAs), OS Software in the public sector: results from the Emilia Romagna Open Source Survey

Discussant: N. Lorenz

Andreas Niedermayer (University of Bern),  On platforms, incomplete contracts, and OS software

Discussant: A. Raybaut

Anthony Hussenot and Stéphanie Missonier (GREDEG/RODIGE-CNRS and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis), From collaboration to controversies around an OSS development: the school numeric bag case

Discussant: M. Vicente

Sebastian von Engelhardt (Friedrich Schiller University), Institutions of the software industry : external effects, intellectual property rights and organisation

Discussant: F.Siiriainen


Thomas Le Texier (CReA and GREDEG-CNRS) and David Versailles (CReA), How does technology reshape industrial activities? The case of Open Source Software within DoD

Discussant: S. Rochhia

17:30

End of the workshop


Some pictures



Financial Support
We greatly acknowledge the financial support of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, the CNRS, the Région Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur and the Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes

[Conseil Général des Alpes Maritimes] [Université de Nice] CNRS [Région PACA]



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