[Air-L] HICSS 42: Minitrack on Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents and Open Communities

[Felipe Ortega]

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HICSS 42: Minitrack on Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents and Open
Communities
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I am pleased to announce this minitrack, scheduled in the next HICSS 42
Conference.
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/apahome42.htm
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/minitracks/in-omf.htm

This year, it focuses on FLOSS, Open Contents and Open Communities, so
it is specially
suitable for Wikipedia and wiki related research papers from many
different points of view (semantics, ontologies, social networks,
quantitative analysis, etc.)

If you plan to submit, please note that it is recommendable that you
send to Kevin or to me an abstract summarizing the contents before 1 June.

Full papers deadline: 15 june.
The conference will be held from 5-8 January, 2009.

Regards.

Felipe Ortega.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Issues in distributed software development for FLOSS
* Issues in content development in OC and OComm
* Distributed collaboration in and coordination of FLOSS and OC
development teams
* Distributed group development for FLOSS
* Community development and its evolution in OC
* FLOSS teams as communities of practice
* Leadership, management and policies in FLOSS, OC groups and Open
Communities
* Creators roles in OC, and OComm and how they evolve over time
* Implementation of FLOSS systems
* Distributed project management and distributed team management
* Knowledge management and learning in OComm, OC and FLOSS development
* Member satisfaction and effectiveness in OComm, OC and FLOSS development
* Analysis and assessment of software development processes for FLOSS
* Motivations and ideologies in OC, OComm and FLOSS
* User involvement and user support in FLOSS development
* FLOSS systems supporting OC projects
* Web 20, Enterprise 20, mashups and their relationships with OC and OComm
* Forecasting the evolution of FLOSS and OC projects, as well as OComm
* Application, implementation and cases of use of OC and FLOSS projects
in education, health care, public administrations and mass media
* Social networks in FLOSS, OC projects and OComm

Co-chairs:
Felipe Ortega (Primary Contact)
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
GSyC/LibreSoft
Tulipán s/n28933 Mostoles, Madrid, Spain
Phone: +34-91-488-8523
Email: jfelipe at gsyc.es

Kevin Crowston
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
348 Hinds HallSyracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA
Phone: +1-315-443-1676
Email: crowston at syr.edu
URL: http://crowston.syr.edu/
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José Felipe Ortega Soto          | Ph.D. Candidate / Researcher
Tel: (+34)-914 888 105           |
Fax: (+34)-916 647 494           | GSyC/Libresoft - U. Rey Juan Carlos
jfelipe _at_ gsyc.escet.urjc.es  | Edif. Departamental II - Office 116
http://libresoft.urjc.es/        | c/Tulipán s/n 28933 Móstoles (Madrid)
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