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UPGRADE, Vol. VIII, Issue No. 6, December 2007 http://www.cepis.org CEPIS, Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, is a non-profit organisation seeking to improve and promote high standards among informatics professionals in recognition of the impact that informatics has on employment, business and society. CEPIS unites 37 professional informatics societies over 33 European countries, representing more than 400,000 ICT professionals. CEPIS promotes http://www.eucip.com http://www.ecdl.com http://www.upgrade-cepis.org UPGRADE is the European Journal for the Infor- matics Professional, published bimonthly at <http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/> Publisher UPGRADE is published on behalf of CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, <http://www.cepis.org/>) by Novática <http://www.ati. Vol. VIIII, issue No. 6, December 2007 es/novatica/>, journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, <http://www.ati.es/>) UPGRADE monographs are also published in Spanish (full version printed; summary, abstracts and some articles online) by Novática Monograph: Free Software: Research and Development UPGRADE was created in October 2000 by CEPIS and was first published by (published jointly with Novática*) Novática and INFORMATIK/INFORMATIQUE, bimonthly journal of SVI/FSI Guest Editors: Manuel Palomo-Duarte, José-Rafael Rodríguez-Galván, Israel Herraiz-Tabernero, (Swiss Federation of Professional Informatics Societies, <http://www.svifsi. ch/>) and Andrea Capiluppi UPGRADE is the anchor point for UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork), the network of CEPIS member societies’ publications, that currently includes 2 Presentation. Free Software: Scientific and Technological Innova- the following ones: tion — Andrea Capiluppi, José-Rafael Rodríguez-Galván, Manuel • Informatik-Spektrum, journal published by Springer Verlag on behalf of the CEPIS societies GI, Germany, and SI, Switzerland Palomo-Duarte, and Israel Herraiz-Tabernero • ITNOW, magazine published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British CEPIS society BCS • Mondo Digitale, digital journal from the Italian CEPIS society AICA 5 The Need for Libre Software Research in Europe — Israel Herraiz- • Novática, journal from the Spanish CEPIS society ATI Tabernero, José-Rafael Rodríguez-Galván, and Manuel Palomo- • OCG Journal, journal from the Austrian CEPIS society OCG • Pliroforiki, journal from the Cyprus CEPIS society CCS Duarte • Pro Dialog, journal from the Polish CEPIS society PTI-PIPS Editorial Team 8 From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: An Empirical Study of the Lifecycle Chief Editor: Llorenç Pagés-Casas, Spain, <[email protected]> of Volunteer Community Projects — Andrea Capiluppi and Martin Associate Editors: Michlmayr François Louis Nicolet, Switzerland, <[email protected]> Roberto Carniel, Italy, <[email protected]> Zakaria Maamar, Arab Emirates, <Zakaria. Maamar@ zu.ac.ae> 18 The Commons as New Economy and what this Means for Research Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Switzerland, <soraya.kouadrimostefaoui @gmail.com> — Richard P. Gabriel Rafael Fernández Calvo, Spain, <[email protected]> Editorial Board 22 Libre Software for Research — Israel Herraiz-Tabernero, Juan-José Prof. Wolffried Stucky, CEPIS Former President Amor-Iglesias, and Álvaro del Castillo-San Félix Prof. Nello Scarabottolo, CEPIS Vice President Fernando Piera Gómez and Llorenç Pagés-Casas, ATI (Spain) François Louis Nicolet, SI (Switzerland) 27 Technological Innovation in Mobile Communications Developed with Roberto Carniel, ALSI – Tecnoteca (Italy) Free Software: Campus Ubicuo — Javier Carmona-Murillo, José-Luis UPENET Advisory Board González-Sánchez, and Manuel Castro-Ruiz Hermann Engesser (Informatik-Spektrum, Germany and Switzerland) Brian Runciman (ITNOW, United Kingdom) Franco Filippazzi (Mondo Digitale, Italy) 34 The Case of the University of Cádiz’s Free Software Office Among Llorenç Pagés-Casas (Novática, Spain) Veith Risak (OCG Journal, Austria) Spanish Universities — José-Rafael Rodríguez-Galván, Manuel Panicos Masouras (Pliroforiki, Cyprus) Palomo-Duarte, Juan-Carlos González-Cerezo, Gerardo Aburruzaga- Andrzej Marciniak (Pro Dialog, Poland) Rafael Fernández Calvo (Coordination) García, Antonio García-Domínguez, and Alejandro Álvarez-Ayllón English Language Editors: Mike Andersson, David Cash, Arthur Cook, Tracey Darch, Laura Davies, Nick Dunn, Rodney Fennemore, Hilary Green, Roger 40 On Understanding how to Introduce an Innovation to an Open Source Harris, Jim Holder, Pat Moody, Brian Robson Project — Christopher Oezbek and Lutz Prechelt Cover page designed by Concha Arias Pérez "Exit of Room 101" / © ATI 2007 45 3D Distributed Rendering and Optimization using Free Software — Layout Design: François Louis Nicolet Composition: Jorge Llácer-Gil de Ramales Carlos González-Morcillo, Gerhard Weiss, David Vallejo-Fernández, Luis Jiménez-Linares, and Javier Albusac-Jiménez Editorial correspondence: Llorenç Pagés-Casas <[email protected]> Advertising correspondence: <[email protected]> 54 Identifying Success and Tragedy of FLOSS Commons: A Prelimina- UPGRADE Newslist available at ry Classification of Sourceforge.net Projects — Robert English and <http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/pages/editinfo.html#newslist> Charles M. Schweik Copyright © Novática 2007 (for the monograph) © CEPIS 2007 (for the sections UPENET and CEPIS News) All rights reserved under otherwise stated. Abstracting is permitted with credit UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork) to the source. For copying, reprint, or republication permission, contact the Editorial Team 60 From Novatica (ATI, Spain ) The opinions expressed by the authors are their exclusive responsibility ICT Security ISSN 1684-5285 Security of Electronic Passports — Václav Matyáš, Zdeněk Říha, and Petr Švéda Monograph of next issue (February 2008) "ICT Governance" * This monograph will be also published in Spanish (full version printed; summary, abstracts, and some (The full schedule of UPGRADE is available at our website) articles online) by Novática, journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de In- formática) at <http://www.ati.es/novatica/>. Free Software: Research and Development Presentation Free Software: Scientific and Technological Innovation Andrea Capiluppi, José-Rafael Rodríguez-Galván, Manuel Palomo-Duarte, and Israel Herraiz-Tabernero In recent years we have seen how free software has best chances for the European ICT sector to become a evolved from being a software development model (with worldwide player and promote RDI (Research, Develop- all its ethical and technical implications) to playing a key ment & Innovation) initiatives. role in the development strategies of companies, institu- In the framework of this scenario we have published tions, regions, and even entire countries. Examples such this special issue of Novática and UPGRADE on “Free as the Brazilian Government’s support of Free Software Software: research and development”, almost an annual [1][2] or the Andalusian Regional Government’s adop- event for the IT community. As usual, most of its content tion of free licensing for all its developments [3][4][5], is published under a free license. have caused more and more institutions and associations After a brief introductory article entitled “The Need for to study the long term implications of adopting the free Libre Software Research in Europe” by the guest editors software model. of the monograph, we kick off with the paper “From the One of the most important milestones was the “Study Cathedral to the Bazaar: an Empirical Study of the Life- on the economic impact of open source software on in- cycle of Volunteer Community Projects” which presents novation and the competitiveness of the Information and a comparison between the development communities of Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU” two prestigious free software projects, Wine and Arla. In [6] developed for the European Commission by UNU- particular the article compares the number of developers MERIT. It concludes that Free Software offers one of the who have contributed to the project during its lifecycle. The Guest Editors en Informática de Sistemas” He is a member of the “Software Process Improvement and Formal Methods” research group Andrea Capiluppi obtained his Ph.D. from the Politecnico di and he is pursuing his Ph.D. on quality in BPEL web services Torino, Italy. In October 2003 he was a visiting researcher in the compositions. Since he joined the Universidad de Cádiz he has Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones of the Universidad Rey collaborated with the Free Software Office, mainly in relation Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. From January 2004 to the present to the following conferences: 3rd Free Software Conference he has been a visiting researcher in the Department of Maths and at the Universidad de Cádiz (JOSLUCA3) and the 1st FLOSS Computing at the Open University, UK, working in collaboration International Conference (FLOSSIC 2007). <manuel.palomo@ with Drs. Juan Ramil, Neil Smith, Helen Sharp, Alvaro Faria, uca.es>. and Sarah Beecham. This appointment has been renewed until December 2008. In January 2006, he joined the University of Israel Herraiz-Tabernero is a Ph.D. student at the Universidad Lincoln as a Senior Lecturer. <[email protected]>. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. His research is related to the evolution of libre software projects. In particular, he is using José-Rafael Rodríguez-Galván works as a lecturer in the time series analysis and other statistical methods to characterize Department of Mathematics at the Universidad de Cádiz. the evolution
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