Research Agenda for Open Source (Workshop - January 2002)

马里兰大学信息政策中心将邀请25-30名与会者举办议程设置讲习班。本次研讨会将汇集不同的学者和实践者，探讨由开源软件开发引起的社会和经济问题。这些问题包括它与其他形式的混合企业（如标准开发和科学研究）的关系，以及对数字社会的制度和政策的影响。与会者将提前提交两份发言，以组织实质性讨论，这些发言稍后将在中心网站上进行编辑和发表。研讨会将考虑未来国际会议的可行性和设计，该会议将汇集美国、欧洲和发展中国家的观点和研究。开源软件的品质和价值——安全、可靠、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自己使用的软件，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让互联网和数字经济的好处更广泛地获得的争论。开源的成功引发了关于信息架构、契约、制度经济学、无形资产配置和创新过程的广泛猜测和辩论。预期的成果包括：为未来的研究提供一组优先考虑的问题，建立一个开源学术研究网站，在中心的网站上公开提供研讨会的参考书目和总结报告，以及参与者的编辑贡献和其他相关研讨会和研究的链接。讲习班将寻求促进研究人员之间以及实践者社区和学术研究人员之间的新交流渠道，并引起对围绕开放源代码的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，该会议汇集了美国、欧洲和发展中国家对开放源代码的研究。

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.