Research Agenda for Open Source (Workshop - January 2002)

马里兰州大学信息政策中心将举办一个有25-30名受邀参加者的研讨会。 本次研讨会将汇集不同的shcolars和从业人员，探讨开源软件开发所提出的社会和经济问题。 这些问题包括它与其他形式的混合企业（如标准制定和科学研究）的关系，以及对数字社会中的机构和政策的影响。 与会者将提前提交自己的发言稿，以便安排实质性讨论，这些发言稿随后将被编辑并在中心的网站上发表。 研讨会将考虑未来国际会议的可行性和设计，欧洲和发展中国家的观点和研究。开源软件所要求的质量和价值--安全可靠性、适应性、可扩展性、低成本和开放性--创造了市场机会，也提出了政策问题。 后者包括政府如何开发或许可软件供自己使用，如何监管市场竞争以促进经济增长和消费者福利，以及在欠发达国家和美国更广泛地使用互联网和数字经济的好处。 开放源代码的成功引发了关于信息架构、合同、制度经济学、无形资产配置和创新过程的广泛猜测和辩论。 预期成果包括一套供今后研究的优先问题、一个开放源码学术研究网站、沿着在中心网站上公布的讲习班参考书目和摘要报告，以及经编辑的与会者来稿和其他有关讲习班和研究的链接。 该研讨会将寻求促进研究人员之间以及从业者社区和学术研究人员之间的新沟通渠道，并引发对开源问题的更广泛的学术理解和兴趣。 研讨会将考虑一个国际会议的可行性和设计，欧洲和发展中国家对开源的研究。

An agenda-setting workshop of 25-30 invited participants wil be held by the Center for Information Policy a the University of Maryland. This workshop will bring together diverse shcolars and practitioners to explore social and economic issues raised by open source software development. These issues include its relationship to other forms of hybrid enterprise (such as standards development and scientific research), and implications for institutions and policies ina digital society. Particpants will submit sohor statments in advance to structure the substantive discussion and these statements later will be edited and published on the Center's web site. The workshop will consider the feasibility and design of a future international conference that brings together U.S., European, and developing world perspectives and research.The qualities and values claimed for open-source software-security reliabilty, adaptability, extensibility, low cost, and openness-create marketing opportunities and pose policy questions. The latter include how the government develops or licenses software for its own use, how marketplace competition is regulated to promote economic growth and consumer welfare, and arguments for making the Internet and the benefits of the digital economy more broadly accessible, in lesser developed countries as well as in the United States. The success of the open source invites far-ranging speculation and debate about information architectures, contracts, institutional economics, and the configuration of intangible assets and innovation processes. Expected outcomes, include a prioritized set of questions for future research, a web site for academic research on open source, a bibliography and summary report of the workshop publicly available on th Center's website along with edited contributions of participants and links to related other workshops and research. The workshop wil seek to promote new channels of communication among researchers and between the practitioner community and academic researchers, and to elicit broader academic understanding and interest in the issues surrounding open source. The workshop will consider the feasibility and design of an international conference that brings together U.S., European, and developing world research on open source.