%0 Book Section %B Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing %D 2008 %T Movement Ideology vs. User Pragmatism in the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software %A Dedrick, Jason %A Joel West %E Kraemer, Kenneth L. %E Elliott, Margaret %B Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing %I Information Today %C Medford, NJ %P 427-452 %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B OSS2005: Open Source Systems %D 2005 %T Multi-Modal Modeling of Open Source Software Requirements Processes %A Walt Scacchi %A Chris Jensen %A Noll, John %A Elliott, Margaret %X Understanding the context, structure, activities, and content of software development processes found in practice has been and remains a challenging problem. In the world of free/open source software development, discovering and understanding what processes are used in particular projects is important in determining how they are similar to or different from those advocated by the software engineering community. Prior studies however have revealed that the requirements processes in OSSD projects are different in a number of ways, including the general lack of explicit software requirements specifications. In this paper, we describe how a variety of modeling perspectives and techniques are used to elicit, analyze, and validate software requirements processes found in OSSD projects, with examples drawn from studies of the NetBeans.org project. %B OSS2005: Open Source Systems %P 1-8 %U http://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/975 %0 Conference Proceedings %B GROUP ’03 Conference %D 2003 %T Free Software Developers as an Occupational Community: Resolving Conflicts and Fostering Collaboration %A Elliott, Margaret %A Walt Scacchi %X In this paper, we present results from the study of a free software development virtual organization, the GNU Enterprise (GNUe) project, and how they develop soft ware in a globally distributed free software development project. In particular, examples of how they mitigate and resolve conflict are presented. Conflict arises over the use of a non-free tool to create GNUe graphic, and over the use of a non-free tool for GNUe documentation. The GNUe developers resolve the conflict using internet relay chat (IRC), threaded email discussions, and community digests. We characterize the GNUe developers as an occupational subculture within the occupational community of free/open source software (F/OSS) developers and show how the beliefs in free software and freedom of choice, and values in cooperative work and community assist GNUe contributors in mitigating and resolving conflict. In addition, we show how, despite fluctuating boundaries of membership in a virtual organization, daily discussions on the GNUe IRC serve to build and perpetuate the global community of GNUe contributors as well as F/OSS developers in general. %B GROUP ’03 Conference %P 10 pp %8 11/2003 %U http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/papers/Elliott-Scacchi-GROUP03.pdf %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Elliott-Scacchi-GROUP03.pdf