Also see http://oss2012.org/
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Gregory Hislop <[email protected]> wrote: > While different than journals, there are some conferences that have a > focus on FOSS. The conference run by IFIP working group 2.13 is one ( > http://ifipwg213.org/). Also the conference on mining software > repositories has a lot of FOSS related material (http://2012.msrconf.org/ > ). > > Cheers, > > Greg Hislop > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mel Chua > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:14 PM > To: TOS List > Subject: Re: [TOS] FOSS Journals > > On 01/26/2012 01:51 PM, Don Davis wrote: > > Which (FOSS) journals are list members reading/relying on/submitting to? > > I'm looking for journals outside the scope of IEEE and ACM... > > I... would love to know if people have better ideas, because I've had > multi-hour sit-down sessions with *three* librarians from *different* > libraries by now and we're still scratching our heads a bit. > > FOSS-centric journals (in English, anyway)? I've found one: > > http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-open-source-software/1123 > -- which as far as I can tell is (1) expensive and (2) not in my library > (I can check, though). So I haven't gotten to take a look to see what > it's got and how good it is. If anyone has access to this I would *love* > to hear what you think of it (even as a quick glance) -- is it worth me > asking librarians at Purdue to help me chase it down? The articles look > super-interesting: > > http://www.igi-global.com/journal-contents/international-journal-open-source-software/1123 > > And then there's random stuff here and there. You said you were looking > outside ACM and IEEE, so here goes. > > I've found some FOSS-related papers in the International Journal of > Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (for example: "An empirical > analysis of the open source development process based on mining of > source code repositories") There's also stuff like "Public participation > in proprietary software development through user roles and discourse" in > the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and at least one > Wikipedia-related article in the International Journal of Technology > Management ("'Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia' as a role model? Lessons > for open innovation from an exploratory examination of the supposedly > democratic-anarchic nature of Wikipedia.") > > In other words, it's scattershot. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or > reason to this yet. You can start ranging outside computing-related > stuff into the fields of law and econ, anthro and sociology, management > studies... I mean, if that's what you're looking for, I can share more > stuff, but it's probably a little far afield -- and pretty much equally > scattershot. > > In my extremely limited "I've completed one semester of grad school" > experience (DISCLAIMER!), everything is... spotty. It's not like you'll > find tons of articles on open source in any one journal. And authors who > write about open source tend to write one article in one journal, > another article in another journal... so as far as I can tell it's > impossible to fix your sights on a few targets and harvest a continuing > stream of good information, you have to constantly hunter-gatherer. > > But then again, that's what happens when stuff is emergent -- or so I'm > told. Maybe my professors are trying to make me feel better, though. :) > > --Mel > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >
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