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In recent years, the development of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has attracted the attention of academics, practitioners and policy-makers. In this research project, we investigate the various impacts of F/LOSS development. The scope of this project is multi-disciplinary (sociology, economics & management, law)
The project is headed by a pool of French research centers, all specialized on the analysis of ICT usages. These are: CReA (Centre de Recherche de l’Armée de l’Air), CREM (University of Rennes 1 & CNRS), GREDEG (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis & CNRS); GREQAM (University of Aix-Marseille & CNRS).
It is is organized around regular meetings.
• The first meeting took place in Nice Sophia-Antipolis (May, 31th and June 1st 2007). Three main issues were addressed during this workshop: a) production of FLOSS and the organization of Open Source communities; b) public and private uses of FLOSS software; c) impacts of FLOSS on the organization of the software industry.
• An intermediary meeting will took place in Salon-de-Provence (on Spring 2008) and will focus on “Security and F/LOSS”
• A third meeting will take place in Rennes on June, 26th and 27th. We still welcome submissions falling into the fields addressed during the first workshop. Beside, we would like to extend the scope of the conference to two related areas: a) cooperation within other type of online communities (as file-sharing, file storage & back-up communities, other type knowledge-producing communities, etc.) ; b) generalization of the Open model to other domains (open models, degrees of openness, hybrid models).
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If you are interested in this project, please feel free to contact us:
- Eric DARMON, CREM-CNRS, University of Rennes 1 and M@RSOUIN : eric.darmon [at] univ-rennes1.fr
- Dominique TORRE, GREDEG-CNRS, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, and DEMOS : dominique.torre [at] gredeg.cnrs.fr
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