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Karim R. Lakhani | 22 Apr 2003 06:51
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[F/OSS-Community] 2 New Papers + 1 MS Thesis on opensource.mit.edu

Hello All,

Hope all is well.  I have posted the following papers on our website. 
Thanks to the authors for their submissions.

Paper 1
Author:
Ghosh, Rishab Ayer

Title:
Clustering and Dependencies in Free/Open Source Software Development: 
Methodology and Tools
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/ghosh2.pdf

Abstract:
This paper addresses the problem of measurement of non-monetary economic 
activity, specifically in the area of free/open source software 
communities. It describes the problems associated with research on these 
communities in the absence of measurable monetary transactions, and 
suggests possible alternatives.. A class of techniques using software 
source code as factual documentation of economic activity is described 
and a methodology for the extraction, interpretation and analysis of 
empirical data from software source code is detailed, with the outline 
of algorithms for identifying collaborative authorship and determining 
the identity of coherent economic actors in developer communities. 
Finally, conclusions are drawn from the application of these techniques 
to a base of software.

Paper 2:
Author:
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Karim R. Lakhani | 1 May 2003 14:41
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A sister website: userinnovation.mit.edu

Hello All,

I am pleased to let you know that Nik Franke, Eric von Hippel and I have 
  set up a website that may be of interest to some of the participants 
in the opensource community.  The website relates to research on user 
innovation.  The intent and strucutre of the site is to create and 
sustain a community of scholars interested in innovation matters in 
general and user innovation in particular.  The site is at 
http://userinnovation.mit.edu

Take a look!  And we welcome your feedback.

Best,

Karim

ps: Many thanks to Hilary Karls for the technical setup of the site
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MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project
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http://userinnovation.mit.edu
http://http://spoudaiospaizen.net/
http://mit.edu/lakhani/www
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