Topics of Interest

Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):

• challenges of building and maintaining open source communities covering concerns related to legal, socio-cultural, business, technical, etc. dimensions;
• organization and interaction schemes in open source communities;
• models and classification schemes of communities: participation (e.g. volunteer, mixed, company-based), origin (e.g. individual, company), host (e.g. academy, company), scope (e.g. public, corporate);
• practical approaches, best practices, frameworks, methodologies, technologies, tools, and environments to support community building and management;
• industrial involvement in building, managing and interfacing with communities: opening up software platforms and acquiring open source software, motives and cost-benefit models;
• building open source communities: the role of companies, academy, governments, NGOs, and individuals;
• open source communities versus other kinds of communities such as firm-hosted communities, corporate communities, social networks, global software teams;
• experience reports and lessons on building and maintaining open source communities.