Call for Chapters

Topic: Successful OSS Project Design and Implementation: Requirements, Tools, Social Designs, Reward Structures and Coordination Methods

A book edited by Prof. Nassim Belbaly, Hind Benbya and Regis Meissonier, GSCM - Montpellier Business, Montpellier, France.

Proposals Submission Deadline: October 31, 2006.
Full Chapters Due: February 15, 2007.

The book is scheduled to be published by Gower Publishing Limited.

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Prospective subject areas and specific topics for this publication include, but are not limited to, the followings:

OSS trends and foundations
- Implications of the Open Source movement for the software industry
- Evolution of Open Source software artefacts
- The Open Source community
OSS development
- Open Source software development processes
- Communication and coordination in Open Source projects
- Motivation of participants in Open Source projects
- Methodologies and tools related to OSS
- Building applications with OS tools
- Metrics regarding OSS development
- Security concerns related to OSS
- Methods for working with OSS communities and application development workflow
- Project management issues related to OSS development projects
- OSS development maturity model
- Testing issues related to OSS
OSS Selection
- Comparison of OSS products and their proprietary equivalent
- Selecting and identifying the Right OSS Software and development projects
- Usability of OSS
- Satisfaction with OSS application
OSS cases and applications
- Case studies of Open Source projects, their participants and/or their development process
- Application of OSS principles beyond software design
- The International Spread of Open Source Software Use
- Licensing: Examining the Agreements that Make Use Possible
- Legal issues of Open Source software