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Conference absenteeism?
by cvb 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Greetings, This was my first AoIR, and overall I enjoyed and appreciated the conference's tone and rigor, and admired the sense of warm community among participants. I'm curious if AoIR collects statistics about the rate of no-shows, and if anyone knows what the typical absenteeism rate is at other conferences. I ask because I was unexpectedly the only person (of four) on my panel to show up to present. One person did notify the conference staff that she would be unable to attend; I hope that nothing serious had befallen the other two. Is such a high absentee rate a fluke at AoIR? Do others have any thoughts on this topic? Cheers, Cassandra Van Buren University of Utah

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disciplinarity....
by jeremy hunsinger 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

jean burgess wrote some interesting things in her blog about emerging disciplinarity or perhaps it is latent disciplinarity in internet research, (both my descriptions, not hers). her's is at http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~burgess/ . i'm wondering if anyone wants to open this thread again for discussion. we've discussed it many times in the past, you can search the archives of the list for prior ideas at http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/ jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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receipt for AOIR conference accommodation and registration
by hagar＠uiuc.edu 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Hi Kate, Is it possible to obtain a receipt, an e-mail would be fine, confirming registration 85 pounds and accommodation, incl conference dinner 123 pounds. Total 208 pounds. Thanks for organizing the conference, you deserve a long rest now! Chris Hagar University of Illinois

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Ready for DOCAM'04 Oct. 22-24,UC-Berkeley ?
by Niels Windfeld Lund 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

It is now time for register for the Document Research conference at UC-Berkeley next month October 22-24 organized by the Document Academy, an international collaborative initiative for document research. The program is here: http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/04/program.html Registration can be done by following the instructions here http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/04/registration.html The program is divided into three parts, one on general theoretical issues and two on selected fields of documentation, Art and Health care. Our key-note speaker this year is coming from France, from the strong francophonic tradition for document research, professor Jean-Michel Salaün, Professor at L' Ecole nationale des sciences de l'information et des bibliotheques, France. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to send me an email. Welcome at DOCAM '04 Niels Windfeld Lund chair of DOCAM '04 -- Niels Windfeld Lund, professor, Dokumentasjonsvitenskap - Documentation Studies Institute of Culture and Literature HUM-FAK, Universitetet i Tromsø/University of Tromsoe Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239 http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ansatte/niels.lund/index.html

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conference pix?
by Nancy Baym 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

I noticed an awful lot of camera flashes flashing throughout the Sussex conference (kind of funny, I thought, for a crowd prone to presenting papers on the dangers of the surveillance society). If any of you post them to the web can you please let me or the list know? Thanks, Nancy -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org

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Blogging and photo-blogging AoIR
by Theresa M. Senft 26 Sep '04

26 Sep '04

Wondering who blogged what re. AoIR? The fabulous Lilia Efimova began a "topic exchange" channel for AoIR bloggers at http://topicexchange.com/t/aoir/ Please, add your own blogged impressions to the channel. It's quite easy (I got it right the first time, and I never get anything right the first time.) And special to Nancy: One of my fave set of photo-blogged pictures so far has been at http://www.klastrup.dk/fotoblog/archive/ 2004_09_01_archive.html#109602243815895034 Best, Terri Theresa M. Senft Auxiliary Adviser, Gallatin School of Individualized Study Adjunct Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program New York University, 719 Broadway, Room 519 (212) 998-7333 email: terri.senft(a)nyu.edu

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Post-Sussex thanks!
by Nancy Baym 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

The Susssex Conference was a great success, and I again want to thank all those of you who made it happen: Kate O'Riordan, Conference Coordinator Sheizaf Rafaeli, Program Chair All of the reviewers! All of the fantastic on site volunteers! We needed all of you and appreciate the labor you gave to make this event come off so well. And thanks, not least of all, to all those who came. Your good spirits, interesting ideas, and enthusiasm for engaging one another in productive discussion demonstrated all the things we hope AoIR conferences can be. Now get some sleep. If you weren't able to come this year, we hope you'll join us next year in Chicago, where we'll gather in mid-October around the theme "Internet Generations." Nancy -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org

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geneva declaration on WIPO
by jeremy hunsinger 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Some of you might want to sign on to support this. http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/genevadeclaration.html jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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3 new papers + 1 updated paper + 2 call for papers on freesoftware.mit.edu
by Karim R. Lakhani 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hello Friends, <sorry for any x-postings> I have updated our community website to reflect new paper submissions. Many thanks to all the authors for their contributions. Please provide direct feedback to the authors! See you soon, Karim ========================================================== Paper 1 Authors: Nadine Kalwey, Stefan Kooths, Markus Langenfurth Title: Open Source Software - An Economic Assessment http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/kalweykoothslangenfurth.pdf Abstract: This study examines whether or not Open Source Software represents an economically suitable alternative to the proprietary commercial software market in terms of creating value-added and economic efficiency. Whereas no significant differences between both production processes are seen for customized software, the study comes to the conclusion that serious economic problems can occur in the field of packaged software. Starting from a discussion on how licenses like the GPL affect the ability to price software (which is usually below economic production costs), the impact of below cost pricing on the coordination capacity of software markets (customer sovereignty, resource allocation, income distribution, adaptability and innovation) and the sustainability of complementary strategies of Open Source business models (with and without cross subsidization of the non-market OSS-core) are described. Throughout the study, the role of the pricing system within a market economy is stressed considering the specific characteristics of software as an economic good. Aspects other than economic are not taken into account. Paper 2 Authors Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi, James Howison and Chengetai Masango Title: Towards a Portfolio of FLOSS project Success Measures. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/crowston04towards.pdf Abstract: Project success is one of the most widely used dependent variables in information systems research. However, conventional measures of project success are difficult to apply to Free/Libre Open Source Software projects. In this paper, we present an analysis of four measures of success applied to SourceForge projects: number of members of the extended development community, project activity, bug fixing time and number of downloads. We argue that these four measures provide different insights into the collaboration and control mechanisms of the projects. Paper 3 Authors: James Howison and Kevin Crowston Title: The perils and pitfalls of mining SourceForge. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/howison04msr.pdf Abstract: SourceForge provides abundant accessible data from Open Source Software development projects, making it an attractive data source for software engineering research. However it is not without theoretical peril and practical pitfalls. In this paper, we outline practical lessons gained from our spidering, parsing and analysis of SourceForge data. SourceForge can be practically difficult: projects are defunct, data from earlier systems has been dumped in and crucial data is hosted outside SourceForge, dirtying the retrieved data. These practical issues play directly into analysis: decisions made in screening projects can reduce the range of variables, skewing data and biasing correlations. SourceForge is theoretically perilous: because it provides easily accessible data items for each project, tempting researchers to fit their theories to these limited data. Worse, few are plausible dependent variables. Studies are thus likely to test the same hypotheses even if they start from different theoretical bases. To avoid these problems, analyses of SourceForge projects should go beyond project level variables and carefully consider which variables are used for screening projects and which for testing hypotheses. ====================================== Updated Paper Authors: West, Joel & Siobhán O’Mahony Title: Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/westomahony.pdf Abstract: Prior characterizations of open source projects have been based on the model of a community-founded project. More recently, a second model has emerged, where organizations spinout internally developed code to a public forum. Based on field work on open source projects, we compare the lifecycle differences between these two models. We identify problems unique to spinout projects, particularly in attracting and building an external community. We illustrate these issues with a feasibility analysis of a proposed open source project based on VistA, the primary healthcare information system of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This example illuminates the complexities of building a community after a code base has been developed and suggests that open source software can be used to transfer technology to the private sector. ======================================== Call for Papers & Book Chapters CFP1 Journal:Knowledge, Technology & Policy, Second Special Issue on Open Source Editors:Ruben van Wendel de Joode, Delft University of Technology, Yuwei Lin, University of York & Shay David, Cornell University Deadline:December 1, 2005 See Call for Papers:http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/ktpcallforpapers.pdf CFP2 Book: The Economics of Open Source Software Development: Analyzing Motivation, Organization, Innovation and Competition in the Open Source Software Revolution Editors: Dr. Jürgen Bitzer, Free University Berlin & Philipp J.H. Schröder, Ph.D., Aarhus School of Business Deadline: February 1, 2005 See Call for Book Chapters: http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/bookcallforchapters.pdf -- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu

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Inquiry for post-doc fellowship-correction to mvn0833 initial message
by mvn0833＠garnet.acns.fsu.edu 19 Sep '04

19 Sep '04

Hello, Please disregard my preceding message...it was not intended for the whole list:) I am sorry for the inconvenience. Best wishes, Mihaela

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