Category: 3.1 Research (General)
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Workshop on Open Source, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
The Chair for Economic Policy (Prof. Andreas Freytag) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University and the Max Planck Institute of Econonics, Jena, Germany, are organizing a workshop on “open source, innovation, and entrepreneurship.” It takes place next week, on Jan 14, 2010. It used to be a private, invitation-only workshop, but the organizers decided to open it up…
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Up and Coming Conference Calls for Papers
If you are interested in open source and software engineering, please take a look at these upcoming events: 27.12.2009: (F/L)OSS 2010, research program call for papers 11.01.2009: SSE 2010, a workshop on social software engineering 25.03.2010: OOPSLA 2010, research program call for papers 31.03.2010: Fourth F/LOSS Workshop Disclaimer: Except for the last one I’m on…
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Call for Papers: Empirical Research Free/Libre Open Source Software
Call for papers: Special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software Important dates Deadline for articles 15 October 2009 Initial decisions by 15 January 2010 Revisions due 15 April 2010 Final decision by 15 July 2010
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Call for Papers: Onward! 2009
For your information, the call for papers for Onward! 2009. I’m on the program committee (and was last year’s chair). ONWARD! 2009 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The conference for new ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on everything to do with programming and software. Co-located with OOPSLA 2009 Orlando, Florida October 25-29 2009 http://www.onward-conference.org Sponsored by ACM…
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Call for Papers: Fourth Workshop on Wikis for Software Engineering
For your information, the fourth workshop on wikis for (in) software engineering. I’m on the program committee. CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Workshop on “Wikis for Software Engineering”, May 16, 2009, at ICSE 2009, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009 Submissions are due on January 26 (abstracts), February 2 (papers), 2009
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Organizational Design and Engineering
Most readers of this blog are probably familiar with Conway’s Law. So named by Fred Brooks in the “Mythical Man-Month” and popularized by the saying “if you have four teams working on a compiler you will get a four-pass compiler.” This sociological observation stipulates that the social architecture of a corporation i.e. its organizational hierarchy…