Open Source Development, Communities and Quality: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
A Framework for Evaluating Managerial Styles in Open Source Projects....Pages 1-14
Forging A Community – Not: Experiences On Establishing An Open Source Project....Pages 15-27
Mapping Linux Security Targets to Existing Test Suites....Pages 29-45
Overview on Trust in Large FLOSS Communities....Pages 47-56
PMLite: An Open Source Solution for Process Monitoring....Pages 57-68
Requirements Acquisition in Open Source Development: Firefox 2.0....Pages 69-79
Analysis of Coordination Between Developers and Users in the Apache Community....Pages 81-92
Lost and Gained in Translation: Adoption of Open Source Software Development at Hewlett-Packard....Pages 93-104
Mining for Practices in Community Collections: Finds From Simple Wikipedia....Pages 105-120
Open to Grok. How do Hackers’ Practices Produce Hackers?....Pages 121-129
Social Dynamics of FLOSS Team Communication Across Channels....Pages 131-142
Towards a Global Research Infrastructure for Multidisciplinary Study of Free/Open Source Software Development....Pages 143-158
Update Propagation Practices in Highly Reusable Open Source Components....Pages 159-170
Using Social Network Analysis Techniques to Study Collaboration between a FLOSS Community and a Company....Pages 171-186
Empirical Analysis of the Bug Fixing Process in Open Source Projects....Pages 187-196
The Total Growth of Open Source....Pages 197-209
Adoption of Open Source in the Software Industry....Pages 211-221
Migration Discourse Structures: Escaping Microsoft’s Desktop Path....Pages 223-235
The SQO-OSS Quality Model: Measurement Based Open Source Software Evaluation....Pages 237-248
An Open Integrated Environment for Transparent Fuzzy Agents Design....Pages 249-255
Archetypal Internet-Scale Source Code Searching....Pages 257-263
Channeling Firefox Developers: Mom and Dad Aren’t Happy Yet....Pages 265-271
Continuous Integration in Open Source Software Development....Pages 273-280
Extracting Generally Applicable Patterns from Object-Oriented Programs for the Purpose of Test Case Creation....Pages 281-287
Social Networking Technologies for Free-Open Source E-Learning Systems....Pages 289-297
The Networked Forge: New Environments for Libre Software Development....Pages 299-306
To What Extent Does It Pay to Approach Open Source Software for a Big Telco Player?....Pages 307-315
A Framework to Abstract The Design Practices of e-Learning System Projects....Pages 317-323
Assessing Innovation in the Software Sector: Proprietary vs. FOSS Production Mode. Preliminary Evidence from the Italian Case....Pages 325-331
Detecting Agility of Open Source Projects Through Developer Engagement....Pages 333-341
Facilitating Social Network Studies of FLOSS using the OSSNetwork Environment....Pages 343-350
Reflection on Knowledge Sharing in F/OSS Projects....Pages 351-358
Usability in Company Open Source Software Context - Initial Findings from an Empirical Case Study....Pages 359-365
Willingness to Cooperate Within the Open Source Software Domain....Pages 367-373
Open Source Project Categorization Based on Growth Rate Analysis and Portfolio Planning Methods....Pages 375-380
Applying Open Source Development Practices Inside a Company....Pages 381-387
Towards The Evaluation of OSS Trustworthiness: Lessons Learned From The Observation of Relevant OSS Projects....Pages 389-395
Open Source Reference Systems for Biometric Verification of Identity....Pages 397-404
eResearch Workflows for Studying Free and Open Source Software Development....Pages 405-411
Panel: Opportunities and Risks for Open Source Software in Industry....Pages 413-414
Open Source Environments for Collaborative Experiments in e-Science....Pages 415-416