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Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting - 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2009, Skoevde, Sweden, June 3-6, 2009, Proceedings (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Cornelia Boldyreff, Kevin Crowston, Bjoern Lundell, Anthony I Wasserman
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R2,847
Discovery Miles 28 470
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Welcome to the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems!
It is quite an achievement to reach the five-year mark - that's the
sign of a successful enterprise. This annual conference is now
being recognized as the primary event for the open source research
community, attracting not only high-quality papers, but also
building a community around a technical program, a collection of
workshops, and (starting this year) a Doctoral Consortium. Reaching
this milestone reflects the efforts of many people, including the
conference founders, as well as the organizers and participants in
the previous conferences. My task has been easy, and has been
greatly aided by the hard work of Kevin Crowston and Cornelia
Boldyreff, the Program Committee, as well as the Organizing Team
led by Bjoern Lundell. All of us are also grateful to our
attendees, especially in the difficult economic climate of 2009. We
hope the participants found the conference valuable both for its
technical content and for its personal networking opportunities. To
me, it is interesting to look back over the past five years, not
just at this conference, but at the development and acceptance of
open source software. Since 2004, the business and commercial side
of open source has grown enormously. At that time, there were only
a handful of open source businesses, led by RedHat and its Linux
distribution. Companies such as MySQL and JBoss were still quite
small.
In today's rapidly changing global work environment, all workers
directly experience increased organizational complexity. Companies
are functionally distributed, many across the globe. Intense
competition for markets and margins makes adaptiveness and
innovation imperative. Information and communication technologies
(ICT) are pervasive and fundamental infrastructures, their use
deeply integrated into work processes. Workers collaborate
electronically with co-workers they may never meet face-to-face or
with employees of other companies. New boundaries of time, space,
business unit, culture, company partnerships, and software tools
are driving the adoption of a variety of novel organizational
forms. On a macro level, these changes have started to reshape
society, leading some to speak of the "Network Society" and "The
Information Age."
This book begins with consideration of possible frameworks for
understanding virtuality and virtualization. It includes papers
that consider ways of analyzing virtual work in terms of work
processes. Following that, the book takes a look at group processes
within virtual teams, focusing in particular on leadership and
group identity. The book goes on to consider the role of knowledge
in virtual settings and other implications of the role of fiction
in structuring virtuality.
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Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting - 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2009, Skoevde, Sweden, June 3-6, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Cornelia Boldyreff, Kevin Crowston, Bjoern Lundell, Anthony I Wasserman
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R2,811
Discovery Miles 28 110
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Welcome to the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems!
It is quite an achievement to reach the five-year mark - that's the
sign of a successful enterprise. This annual conference is now
being recognized as the primary event for the open source research
community, attracting not only high-quality papers, but also
building a community around a technical program, a collection of
workshops, and (starting this year) a Doctoral Consortium. Reaching
this milestone reflects the efforts of many people, including the
conference founders, as well as the organizers and participants in
the previous conferences. My task has been easy, and has been
greatly aided by the hard work of Kevin Crowston and Cornelia
Boldyreff, the Program Committee, as well as the Organizing Team
led by Bjoern Lundell. All of us are also grateful to our
attendees, especially in the difficult economic climate of 2009. We
hope the participants found the conference valuable both for its
technical content and for its personal networking opportunities. To
me, it is interesting to look back over the past five years, not
just at this conference, but at the development and acceptance of
open source software. Since 2004, the business and commercial side
of open source has grown enormously. At that time, there were only
a handful of open source businesses, led by RedHat and its Linux
distribution. Companies such as MySQL and JBoss were still quite
small.
This book begins with consideration of possible frameworks for
understanding virtuality and virtualization. It includes papers
that consider ways of analyzing virtual work in terms of work
processes. It examines group processes within virtual teams,
focusing in particular on leadership and group identity, as well as
the role of knowledge in virtual settings and other implications of
the role of fiction in structuring virtuality.
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