3 New Papers + 1 Extended Abstract on opensource.mit.edu|freesoftware.mit.edu

Hello Friends,

<sorry for any x-posting>

Hope everyone is doing OK and have recovered from July 4th, EuroCup 2004, Tour de France and other assorted
summer fun!

Please find below 3 new papers and one extended abstract  on the
opensource.mit.edu|freesoftware.mit.edu website.  Many thanks to all the authors who submitted their
work. Please provide them with comments on their working papers.

Ok back to my dissertation writing.

Warmly,

Karim

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Paper 1
Authors:
Twidale, Michael B & David M. Nichols
Title:
Usability Discussions in Open Source Development
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/twidalenichols.pdf

AoIR pre-conference workshop on hackers and openness

Hi all, 

I thought the below pre-conference workshop announcement might be appropriate for this group. best, 

Matt 

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Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. 

We will be holding a preconference workshop, entitled "Cultures of Programming: Hackers, Crackers, and
Openness" at  the upcoming Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, "Internet Research
5.0: Ubiquity", 19-22nd September 2004. For more information on the conference, see
(http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir/index.html). 

This workshop will provide space for its participants to examine different aspects of hacker and cracker
cultures, with an eye towards understanding how the history of computing, the identity and narratives of
the hacker/cracker, and the material practices associated with them help to constitute current
developments. It will be held on Saturday, September 18, from 1-6pm. The day will include both
presentations and round-table discussions. 

Please contact either of the workshop organizers if you are interested in participating (for email
addresses see below). Participants will be asked to provide a 2-5 page position paper which will be
circulated before the workshop.

For more information, see below or go to http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir/conference.html. 

Internet Research 5.0 
Pre-conference workshop 
Cultures of Programming: Hackers, crackers and openness
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