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Dirk Riehle | 25 Apr 2008 13:29
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The Total Growth of Open Source

Hello everyone,

we recently measured the growth of much of the active code base of open
source as well as number of active projects and could best explain it
using an exponential model. We have found these results, as
straightforward as they may be, quite helpful when making our case for
funding further open source research, and I thought, so might you. I
have appended the reference to the paper.

Cheers,
Dirk

Title: The Total Growth of Open Source

Authors: Amit Deshpande, Dirk Riehle

Abstract: Software development is undergoing a major change away from a
fully closed software process towards a process that incorporates open
source software in products and services. Just how significant is that
change? To answer this question we need to look at the overall growth of
open source as well as its growth rate. In this paper, we quantitatively
analyze the growth of more than 5000 active and popular open source
software projects. We show that the total amount of source code as well
as the total number of open source projects is growing at an exponential
rate. Previous research showed linear and quadratic growth in lines of
source code of individual open source projects. Our work shows that open
source is expanding into new domains and applications at an exponential
rate.

Reference: In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Open Source
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Francesco Rullani | 26 Apr 2008 16:01
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EXTENDED DEADLINE: May 1st, 2008

 

CALL for participation and paper-submissions (Apologies for cross postings)

 

DIME - DRUID Fundamental on Open and Proprietary Innovation Regimes:

Opportunities and limitations of the open source models of innovation and the role of intellectual property rights

 

June 17, 2008, Copenhagen, DK

 

See the full call at the Fundamental web site:

http://www.dime-eu.org/wp14/conferences/ipross

(if the above links do not work, please copy and paste it into your browser)

 

 

The Fundamental is held in conjunction with the DRUID celebration conference: http://www.druid.dk/celebration2008

 

Confirmed speakers:

·         Ashish Arora    (Carnegie Mellon University).

·         Carliss Baldwin (HarvardBusinessSchool)

·         James Bessen   (BostonUniversity and Research on Innovation).

·         Jean-Michel Dalle (University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie)

·         Paul David (StanfordUniversity and Oxford Internet Institute) 

·         Alfonso Gambardella    (Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi")

·         Rishab Ghosh   (MERIT)

·         Bronwyn Hall   (University of California, Berkeley).

·         Dietmar Harhoff (University of Munich)

·         Joachim Henkel (MunichUniversity of Technology).

·         Georg von Krogh (ETH Zürich)

·         Sonali Shah (University of Washington)

 

---HIGHLIGHTS from the call

 

The Fundamental is open at no additional costs for DRUID conference participants. There is no fee for those wishing to participate in the Fundamental alone. Registration of such can take place by emailing ipr_oss.ino-b4epPxeCJ/A@public.gmane.org

 

~ Participants who have registered for the Fundamental are invited to submit papers sending an email to ipr_oss.ino-wXr3Gg7y1Nc@public.gmane.org before the EXTENDED DEADLINE May 1th, 2008, so that they can be made available to everyone registered for the Fundamental. Only original and not already published papers at a reasonable standard will be accepted. The papers will be published in the DIME IPR working paper series and hosted on the Fundamental web site. If the quality and the number of the submitted papers allow, the best papers will also receive the opportunity to be presented at a poster session which will run during the day.

 

~ Papers submitted after this deadline and before June 17th can be submitted to the DIME working paper series on IPRs:

http://www.dime-eu.org/working-papers/wp14

by emailing to

ipr_oss.ino-wXr3Gg7y1Nc@public.gmane.org

 

 

 

 

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Organizers

 

Birgitte Andersen. Reader in the Economics and Management of Innovation at the University of London, BirkbeckCollege, and Visiting Professor at

the British Institute of Technology and Ecommerce (BITE).     

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/manop/management/staff/andersen.shtml

 

Lee Davis. Associate Professor, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, and Research Fellow, Centre on Law, Economics and Financial Institutions, both at the CopenhagenBusinessSchool, and a member of both DIME and DRUID.

http://www.cbs.dk/staff/lee

 

Francesco Rullani. Assistant Professor at the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, CopenhagenBusinessSchool.

https://mail.sssup.it/~rullani/

 

 

 

 


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Francesco Rullani | 26 Apr 2008 22:41
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FW: EXTENDED DEADLINE: May 1st, 2008: DIME - DRUID Fundamental on Open and Proprietary Innovation Regimes - CALL for participation and paper-submissions

 
EXTENDED DEADLINE: May 1st, 2008

 

CALL for participation and paper-submissions (Apologies for cross postings)

 

DIME - DRUID Fundamental on Open and Proprietary Innovation Regimes:

Opportunities and limitations of the open source models of innovation and the role of intellectual property rights

 

June 17, 2008, Copenhagen, DK

 

See the full call at the Fundamental web site:

http://www.dime-eu.org/wp14/conferences/ipross

(if the above links do not work, please copy and paste it into your browser)

 

 

The Fundamental is held in conjunction with the DRUID celebration conference: http://www.druid.dk/celebration2008

 

Confirmed speakers:

·         Ashish Arora    (Carnegie Mellon University).

·         Carliss Baldwin (HarvardBusinessSchool)

·         James Bessen   (BostonUniversity and Research on Innovation).

·         Jean-Michel Dalle (University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie)

·         Paul David (StanfordUniversity and Oxford Internet Institute) 

·         Alfonso Gambardella    (Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi")

·         Rishab Ghosh   (MERIT)

·         Bronwyn Hall   (University of California, Berkeley).

·         Dietmar Harhoff (University of Munich)

·         Joachim Henkel (MunichUniversity of Technology).

·         Georg von Krogh (ETH Zürich)

·         Sonali Shah (University of Washington)

 

---HIGHLIGHTS from the call

 

The Fundamental is open at no additional costs for DRUID conference participants. There is no fee for those wishing to participate in the Fundamental alone. Registration of such can take place by emailing ipr_oss.ino-b4epPxeCJ/A@public.gmane.org

 

~ Participants who have registered for the Fundamental are invited to submit papers sending an email to ipr_oss.ino-wXr3Gg7y1Nc@public.gmane.org before the EXTENDED DEADLINE May 1th, 2008, so that they can be made available to everyone registered for the Fundamental. Only original and not already published papers at a reasonable standard will be accepted. The papers will be published in the DIME IPR working paper series and hosted on the Fundamental web site. If the quality and the number of the submitted papers allow, the best papers will also receive the opportunity to be presented at a poster session which will run during the day.

 

~ Papers submitted after this deadline and before June 17th can be submitted to the DIME working paper series on IPRs:

http://www.dime-eu.org/working-papers/wp14

by emailing to

ipr_oss.ino-wXr3Gg7y1Nc@public.gmane.org

 

 

 

 

---

 

Organizers

 

Birgitte Andersen. Reader in the Economics and Management of Innovation at the University of London, BirkbeckCollege, and Visiting Professor at

the British Institute of Technology and Ecommerce (BITE).     

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/manop/management/staff/andersen.shtml

 

Lee Davis. Associate Professor, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, and Research Fellow, Centre on Law, Economics and Financial Institutions, both at the CopenhagenBusinessSchool, and a member of both DIME and DRUID.

http://www.cbs.dk/staff/lee

 

Francesco Rullani. Assistant Professor at the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, CopenhagenBusinessSchool.

https://mail.sssup.it/~rullani/

 

 

 

 


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