[p2p-research] ames Herbsleb on Open Source Ecologies

[Michel Bauwens]

Very interesting Paul, I'd appreciate more of the same ... but perhaps with
also links if they are available ...

I would like to remind this group that we have research pages in our wiki,
and I would encourage everyone of you to send me your own research material
for updates ..

see http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Research

This is also for your students, both PhD and Master's.

I would also very much appreciate if you could send me your bios for update
or inclusion here at
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Individuals

Michel

On Nov 26, 2007 11:43 PM, Paul B. Hartzog <paulbhartzog at gmail.com> wrote:

> perhaps an interesting scholar/work
> -p
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> James D. Herbsleb
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> Associate Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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> Open Source Ecologies
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> Abstract --
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> Open source software communities, once primarily the realm of volunteer
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> "hobbyists," have become a powerful mechanism enabling cooperative
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> construction of public goods.  Firms, volunteers, foundations,
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> consultants and others participate in a wide variety of ways, forming a
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> complex network of relationships -- an ecology.  In this talk I will
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> describe preliminary results from two studies that seek to shed light on
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> how these ecologies function.  First is a qualitative study of how the
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> Eclipse ecology solves the problem of allowing competitors to
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> collaborate over distance in the creation of a common platform, while
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> simultaneously building competing products on top of the platform.
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> Second is a study of the how the ongoing influx of commercial developers
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> affects volunteer participation in the Gnome community.  Our results
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> show that the influx tends to drive volunteers away from the particular
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> modules the commercial developers work on, but "well-behaved" commercial
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> developers actually attract new volunteers to the project.  I will
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> conclude with a few conjectures and open problems.
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> Bio --
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> James D. Herbsleb is Associate Professor of Computer Science and
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> Director of the Software Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon
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> University. His research interests lie primarily in the intersection of
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> software engineering and computer-supported cooperative work, focusing
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> on such areas as geographically-distributed development teams, open
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> source software development, and more generally on coordination in
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> software engineering. He holds a JD (1980) and a PhD in psychology
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> (1984) from the University of Nebraska, and an MS in computer science
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> (1991) from the University of Michigan.
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> After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of
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> Michigan, he moved to Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute,
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> where he led an effort to empirically validate the CMM for Software. He
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> then joined the Software Production Research Department at Lucent
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> Technologies, where he initiated and led the Bell Labs Collaboratory
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> Project, which conducted empirical studies and designed collaborative
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> technologies and practices for global software development. He is
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> currently PI on two NSF-funded projects investigating various aspects of
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> collaborative software engineering. His research interests are in
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> geographically-distributed software engineering, open source software
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> development, collaboration over distance, and tools and technologies
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> that support coordination.
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> The Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW) is composed
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> CREW hosts a public seminar. All are welcome.  For more information
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