@proceedings {1465,
	title = {Forking the Commons: Developmental Tensions and Evolutionary Patterns in Open Source Software},
	volume = {378},
	year = {2012},
	month = {09/2012},
	pages = {310-315},
	publisher = {IFIP AICT,  Springer},
	abstract = {Open source software (OSS) presents opportunities and challenges for developers to exploit its commons based licensing regime by creating specializations of a software technology to address plurality of goals and priorities. By {\textquoteleft}forking{\textquoteright} a new branch of development separate from the main project, development diverges into a path in order to relieve tensions related to specialization, which later encounters new tensions. In this study, we first classify forces and patterns within this divergence process. Such tensions may stem from a variety of sources including internal power conflicts, emergence of new environmental niches such as demand for specialized uses of same software, or differences along stability vs. development speed trade-off. We then present an evolutionary model which combines divergence options available to resolve tensions, and how further tensions emerge. In developing this model we attempt to define open software evolution at the level of systems of software, rather than at individual software project level.},
	keywords = {divergence, forking, software evolution, specialization},
	author = {Gen{\c c}er, Mehmet and {\"O}zel, B{\"u}lent}
}
@conference {653,
	title = {Free/Open Source Software Adoption, Public Policies and Development Indicators: An International Comparison},
	booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing },
	volume = {234/2007},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007///},
	pages = {331 - 336},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	chapter = {37},
	abstract = {Despite the growing body of research on the inner workings of FOSS development, there are few studies on its relation with broader developments in society. In this study we have attempted a preliminary investigation of (1) how FOSS prevalence is related to economic and human development indicators of countries, (2) whether public policies regarding FOSS emerge in a consistent relation with these indicators in several clusters of countries constructed from the United Nation{\textquoteright}s human development index, and (3) the relation of software piracy to development indicators. Our results point to relative significance of non-economic factors in FOSS adoption, lack of consistent policies among public agencies, and irrelevance of non-economic factors on software piracy. In addition, the study demonstrates the possibility of developing FOSS indices for larger scale diagnosis and strategizing.
},
	issn = {978-0-387-72485-0},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_37},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Free\%20OSS\%20Adoption.pdf},
	author = {Schmidbauer, Harald and Gen{\c c}er, Mehmet and Tunal{\i}o_lu, Vehbi}
}
@conference {702,
	title = {Organization of Internet Standards},
	booktitle = {OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {267 - 272},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	abstract = {In this study we look at a body of standards documents in RFCs(Request For Comments) of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The cross references between these documents form a network. Approaches from social network analysis are deployed to assess centrality of artifacts in this network and identify cohesive subgroups and levels of cohesion. Our results demonstrate major groups centered around key standard tracks, and application of network metrics reflect different levels of cohesion for these groups. As application of these techniques in such domains is unusual, possible uses in open source projects for strategizing are discussed.
},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34226-5_27},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Organization\%20of\%20Internet\%20Standards.pdf},
	author = {Gen{\c c}er, Mehmet and Oba, Beyza and {\"O}zel, B{\"u}lent and Tunal{\i}o{\u g}lu, V.}
}
