Open Source Software: New Horizons: 6th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2010, Notre Dame, IN, USA, May 30 – June 2, 2010. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Spago4Q and the QEST n D Model: An Open Source Solution for Software Performance Measurement....Pages 1-14
An Investigation of the Users’ Perception of OSS Quality....Pages 15-28
Engaging without Over-Powering: A Case Study of a FLOSS Project....Pages 29-41
The Meso-level Structure of F/OSS Collaboration Network: Local Communities and Their Innovativeness....Pages 42-52
To Patent or Not to Patent: A Pilot Experiment on Incentives to Copyright in a Sequential Innovation Setting....Pages 53-72
Voting for Bugs in Firefox: A Voice for Mom and Dad?....Pages 73-84
The Nagios Community: An Extended Quantitative Analysis....Pages 85-96
Collaborative Development for the XO Laptop: CODEX 2....Pages 97-104
Risks and Risk Mitigation in Open Source Software Adoption: Bridging the Gap between Literature and Practice....Pages 105-118
Usability Innovations in OSS Development – Examining User Innovations in an OSS Usability Discussion Forum....Pages 119-129
Governance in Open Source Software Development Projects: A Comparative Multi-level Analysis....Pages 130-142
Evaluating the Readiness of Proprietary Software for Open Source Development....Pages 143-155
Where and When Can Open Source Thrive? Towards a Theory of Robust Performance....Pages 156-176
How Open Are Local Government Documents in Sweden? A Case for Open Standards....Pages 177-187
Bug Localization Using Revision Log Analysis and Open Bug Repository Text Categorization....Pages 188-199
T-DOC: A Tool for the Automatic Generation of Testing Documentation for OSS Products....Pages 200-213
Open Source Introducing Policy and Promotion of Regional Industries in Japan....Pages 214-223
Comparing OpenBRR, QSOS, and OMM Assessment Models....Pages 224-238
Joining and Socialization in Open Source Women’s Groups: An Exploratory Study of KDE-Women ....Pages 239-251
Download Patterns and Releases in Open Source Software Projects: A Perfect Symbiosis?....Pages 252-267
Modelling Failures Occurrences of Open Source Software with Reliability Growth....Pages 268-280
A Field Study on the Barriers in the Assimilation of Open Source Server Software....Pages 281-293
Reclassifying Success and Tragedy in FLOSS Projects....Pages 294-307
Three Strategies for Open Source Deployment: Substitution, Innovation, and Knowledge Reuse....Pages 308-313
Coordination Implications of Software Coupling in Open Source Projects....Pages 314-321
Industry Regulation through Open Source Software: A Strategic Ownership Proposal....Pages 322-329
Proposal for Solving Incompatibility Problems between Open-Source and Proprietary Web Browsers....Pages 330-335
FLOSS Communities: Analyzing Evolvability and Robustness from an Industrial Perspective....Pages 336-341
BULB: Onion-Based Measuring of OSS Communities....Pages 342-347
A Network of FLOSS Competence Centres....Pages 348-353
Profiling F/OSS Adoption Modes: An Interpretive Approach....Pages 354-360
Introducing Automated Unit Testing into Open Source Projects....Pages 361-366
A Case Study on the Transformation from Proprietary to Open Source Software....Pages 367-372
High-Level Debugging Facilities and Interfaces: Design and Developement of a Debug-Oriented I.D.E.....Pages 373-379
To Rule and Be Ruled: Governance and Participation in FOSS Projects....Pages 380-388
A Comparison Framework for Open Source Software Evaluation Methods....Pages 389-394
An Exploratory Long-Term Open Source Activity Analysis: Implications from Empirical Findings on Activity Statistics....Pages 395-400
Challenges for Mobile Middleware Platform: Issues for Embedded Open Source Software Integration....Pages 401-406
Open Source Software Developer and Project Networks....Pages 407-412
Warehousing and Studying Open Source Versioning Metadata....Pages 413-418
Workshop – Open Source Software for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: Practice and Future....Pages 419-420
WoPDaSD 2010: 5th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development....Pages 421-422
Second International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities OSCOMM 2010....Pages 423-424
Open Source Policy and Promotion of IT Industries in East Asia....Pages 425-426
OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium (OSS2010DC)....Pages 427-428
Student Participation in OSS Projects....Pages 429-430
Open Source Software/Systems in Humanitarian Applications (H-FOSS)....Pages 431-431
The FOSS 2010 Community Report....Pages 432-433
The Present and Future of FLOSS Data Archives....Pages 434-435
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