Open Source Academic Papers Part I

Open Source Software Development and Distributed Innovation

Open Source Software:Private Provision of a Public Good Justin Pappas Johnson
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University

Community, joining, and specialization in opensource software innovation: a case study
Georg von Krogh a, Sebastian Spaeth a,∗, Karim R. Lakhani b
a Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, Dufourstrasse 48,
CH-9010 St. Gallen, Switzerland
b MIT Sloan School of Management, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

A FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS OF THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
PARADIGM
Joseph Feller Brian Fitzgerald
University College Cork
Ireland

Collaboration with Lean Media: How Open-Source Software Succeeds
Yutaka Yamauchi Makoto Yokozawa Takeshi Shinohara Toru Ishida
Department of Social Informatics
Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-8501, JAPAN

Introduction: Epistemic Communities and International Policy Coordiantion

Peter M. Haas

more to come ..

technorati tags:Open Source, Open Source Software Development and Distributed Innovation, Open Source Software:Private Provision of a Public Good, Justin Pappas Johnson, University, Georg von Krogh a, Sebastian Spaeth a, ∗, Karim R. Lakhani b, A FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS OF THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, Joseph Feller Brian Fitzgerald, Collaboration with Lean Media: How Open-Source Software Succeeds, Yutaka Yamauchi Makoto Yokozawa Takeshi Shinohara Toru Ishida, Yutaka Yamauchi Makoto Yokozawa Takeshi Shinohara Toru Ishida

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Open Source Articles

Open Source Academic paper Search from "Google Scholar"

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One left

I did my exam Systems development, and for the first time in the LSE's exami did well. I am well satisfied with this. This is nice I am enjoying my drink and sitting oustide under the sun its 7 p.m. and chatting with my friends. And a nice thing to learn from PO he says

"I  am who I am, I am no better, I am no worse, I do what I can and I love what I do"

and the original one from PO "It never ends but every beginning is a success...".

Nice learning for today.

technorati tags:quotes, PO

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Post on Open Source, Blogs

I am planning to post my papers on the motivations of open source and how blogs add value to the business. But I have to wait for some time else the idiotic "JISC" will catch me for plagiarism. I know I haven't got good grades on the first one, and would be getting the same on the second one. But I think it would be of some help to many people who are doing some work on the domain. Oh man! I have to study know, I have an exam tomorrow. Anyways, I am gonna write on the MeraVideo and Apnatube soon. Also I will publish list of all the academic papers regarding open source. This is a search list from the great "Google Scholar". I have go back to studies now.

technorati tags:blogs, opensource, academicpapers, motivations, apnatube, meravideo

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Apna Tube Vs Mera Video

Online Video websites have been growing, and after the Youtube was bought by Google for a whopping 1.65 billion dollars, everybody is looking for making money. At the time when GoogleYoutube, the market was skeptical about the kind of money Google was willing to pay. But true, Google saw the value YouTube had in future for their business. I am not sure about the success of Google Video in comparison to Youtube, but Youtube's acquisition gave Google a massive amount of user generated content. I was watching one of the Youtube video  regarding the offline meet of Youtuber's in San Fransisco. It's amazing to see that the online community took an initiative to meet offline. Although these offline meets are not new for the Internet community and if I am not wrong the linux community have been doing this more than a decade. Now understanding this online video blogging is very tough for me. But, ofcourse companies like Google would be making whopping sum of money with this phenomena. Had Google waited for more time to acquire I guess the amount of money they paid for Youtube must had gone more than the double. Businesswise, this acquisition made sense because Youtube fits correclty in the Google's Ad business model. Another question arises that what made Youtube so successful when the competitors websites like Veoh,Dailymotion is not that popular. Also, the one of the first

sight in the video market Guba.com which has been operating in market since 1998 is not known in the market. Now I this model of Youtube is tried to be copied by some other players in the other niche country markets like India. In my next post I will talk about two major video blogging sites which are trying create the same wave as of Youtube but in the Indian market.

They are Apnatube.com and Meravideo.com.

Primarily, I will post my study on there interface, a comparison between both of them and of analysis on these sites and the markets they are operating.

technorati tags:GoogleVideo, Youtube, Meravideo, Apnatube, analysis, video, guba.com, veoh, dailymotion, videomarkets, indian, internet

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Kiruba's Show

By Kiruba Shankar | October 5th, 2006 3:53 pm

Did you know that India hosts one of the world's largest FOSS events? Yes, that's right. FOSS.IN, which stands for Free and Open Source Software India, is one of the world's largest and most focused open source events. It's held annually in India. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the speaker roster reads like a "Who's Who" of FOSS contributors from around the world. This year, the event, in its sixth year, will be held in Bangalore from November 24-26. In this podcast, we speak to the man who has been one of the key figures behind the event. Atul Chitnis is senior vice president of technology at Geodesic and lives in Bangalore, India. Arguably one of India's best known technologists, Atul has been at the forefront of India's technology evolution since the 1980s and the main force behind FOSS.in.

The Kiruba Show: Atul Chitnis on India's biggest open source event | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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By Kiruba Shankar | October 10th, 2006 8:10 pm

 Kalyan Varma is an award-winning wildlife digital photographer. He is also the chief technology officer and founder of IT security company Secuprise. Kalyan caught my attention when he moved away from a lucrative position at Yahoo! India and decided to follow his passions - photography and wildlife. It's interesting how he manages to balance his career in IT and his varied interests. Kalyan was chosen as the Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2005 by Sanctuary Magazine.

The Kiruba Show: Digital Wildlife Photography at its Best with Kalyan Varma | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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by Kiruba Shankar | October 20th, 2006 6:03 pm

Anurag Dod is the CEO and founder of Guruji.com, the latest India-based search engine. Recently, Guruji secured an investment of $7 million from Sequoia Capital, the same investors who backed Google.com. Anurag has more than years of extensive software engineering experience, including key contributions to two successful startups. As an engineering manager in Wisenut Search Engine, he was instrumental in developing its core search technology and has a patent pending for that. Wisenut was acquired by LookSmart in 2002. He also held senior engineering positions in eBay, Synopsis and Delsoft. Anurag holds BTech in eclectrical engineering from IIT Delhi and a Masters in computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In this interview, Anurag explains the need for a local search engine like Guruji and how it plans to take on the might of Google.

Is Guruji the new Google for India? | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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by Kiruba Shankar | November 1st, 2006 10:38 pm

It's not easy taking on the mighty Google. So, when you come across a man who has the guts to do that, you can't help but admire the man's spirit. Dr. Sridhar Vembu is the founder and CEO of AdventNet, the company behind the Zoho suite of services, a direct competition to Google's hosted suite of office products. He attended Indian Institute of Technology in Madras for his undergraduate degree and Princeton University for his PhD.

Sridhar Vembu on Zoho's Future Plans and Threat from Google | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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by Kiruba Shankar | November 3rd, 2006 12:04 am

YouTube sold out for a whopping $1.65 billion to Google recently. And guess what the YouTube users got? Nothing. So, this has rubbed people like Chris Messina the wrong side. We talk to Chris about CrowdSourcing and he explains why big companies buying popular user-generated content websites may not be a great thing. Chris Messina, aka FactoryJoe, is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp movement and Microformats. Recently he co-founded The Citizen Agency with real-life partner Tara Hunt. Chris is a widely respected ambassador of open-source, most notably Firefox and Flock. Chris, as a volunteer for the Spread Firefox campaign, also designed the highly influential 2004 Firefox advert which appeared in the New York Times in 2004. Chris currently resides in San Francisco.

Chris Messina on BarCamps and Open Source Evangelism | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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By Kiruba Shankar | November 8th, 2006 9:41 pm

Why do Indian companies pay such scant respect for usability? We ask Amit Ranjan, who heads the Delhi office of Uzanto, a Silicon Valley startup. He heads the product development team that has built two of Uzanto's products, SlideShare & MindCanvas. SlideShare is a Web 2.0 application for sharing PowerPoint Presentations on the web, while MindCanvas is an online research software that helps designers conduct user research while designing a web product/service. Amit keenly follows emerging trends in the consumer Internet space in India and authors a blog called Webyantra, where he profiles innovative Indian web products. Webyantra is good place to go if you want to check out what's happening in Indian Web 2.0. He is actively involved in organizing events like BarCamps and Mobile Mondays in Delhi. In a previous professional avatar, Amit was into product marketing & sales. His last stint was with PepsiCo in their snacks food division. Prior to that, he worked with Asian Paints and Godrej & Boyce in their industrial division. He feels that the experience of those years has sharpened his end customer focus and his understanding of the behavior by which consumers interact with products & services. Amit holds an MBA (with a major in Marketing) from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi and a Mechanical Engineering degree from REC/NIT Jaipur.

Amit Ranjan: SlideShare for Sharing Presentations on the Web | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Kiruba's Show

By Kiruba Shankar | November 14th, 2006 12:08 pm

 

Will an Indian social networking site succeed against Orkut? In this episode, we have Prerna Gupta, founder and CEO of Yaari.com - a new social networking site that claims to be "created by Indian youth, for Indian youth". (Yaari means friendship) At a time when the social networking space is getting increasingly crowded, we ask her why she decided to jump in now, and how she intends to go up against Orkut. Prerna Gupta graduated from Stanford University and worked in a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley prior to founding Yaari.com. Prerna is of Indian origin but has lived all her life in the US. We ask her if that's an impediment for her venture. Listen up.

Prerna Gupta of Yaari.com: Competing with Orkut | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Posted by Kiruba Shankar | November 16th, 2006 11:13 am

In an unprecedented move, RajShri Media, one of India's biggest movie houses, premiered its latest movie on the Internet, on the very same day of its worldwide theatrical release. Rajshri Media has already aggregated more than 3,000 hours of premium Indian video content across multiple genres. Consumers can stream and download hundreds of full-length feature films, including blockbusters like Phir Hera Pheri, Hera Pheri, Amar Akbar Anthony, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Love In Tokyo, and Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, among others. Rajshri also features film and non-film music videos, concerts, humor clips, short films and documentaries licensed from the most respected individuals and organisations in their fields. Commenting on this groundbreaking initiative, Sooraj R. Barjatya, the director of blockbuster hits including Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hain Koun, says, "Indian entertainment is fast becoming the first choice of millions across the globe. We believe the premiere of VIVAH on rajshri.com marks a new era in the distribution and monetization of Indian entertainment content. In an instant, we are able to reach interested consumers across the world and also convert non-consumers into potential consumers of VIVAH." Consumers are offered options to stream the movie on their PCs or download the movie with a limited 72-hour license. Consumers can further choose to stream either high or low bandwidth versions of the movie, depending on the speed of their broadband connectivity.

Rajjaj Barjatya on VIVAH, India's first movie to premiere on the Internet | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Posted by Kiruba Shankar | November 21st, 2006 11:15 am

Will an Indian clone of an international hit take off in India? That's what we ask MeraVideo.com's founder, Kanwaldeep Kalsi whose site is a direct clone of YouTube.com. MeraVideo was recently in the news for being close to signing up venture funding of $1.5 million. We ask Kanwaldeep about his company's revenue model and its chances of success. Kalsi is an IIT Delhi graduate and has eight years of experience in managing projects of approximately $30M in the United States and India, in a broad range industries including entrepreneurial capacity. Kanwaldeep has sufficient experience in the IT sector and has been involved with a lot of projects on web-site development and hosting. Kanwaldeep successfully founded a television production company and has already produced two shows on STAR TV and SONY. Kanwaldeep's principal role is to provide overall supervision and strategic direction to the group.

MeraVideo.com Founder Kanwaldeep Kalsi | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Kiruba's Show

Posted by Kiruba Shankar | November 28th, 2006 12:04 am

 Dushyant Mehta and his company, IndiaPicture, has been in the news recently for signing up a deal with Corbis to be their exclusive distributor in India. Corbis is a company owned by Bill Gates and it is the world's second largest stock photo website. Dushyant's passion for rich media and content management started in the early days of his career, when he was executive producer for U.R. Productions, a production house specializing in TV shows. After U.R., he was a freelance consultant, advising media companies on digital video technologies. Dushyant co-founded his own online media company, IndiaPicture.com, now the largest online repository of images in South East Asia.

Dushyant Mehta on IndiaPicture.com's Alliance With Corbis | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Kiruba's Show

Posted by Kiruba Shankar | November 30th, 2006 1:51 pm

Very recently, QUALCOMM India, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and mobile data solutions, hosted the second annual BREW Developers Conference in Mumbai. In this episode, I speak with Vishal Gupta, senior director of Qualcomm India about Brew and what it means to the mobile development community. The theme for this year's conference, "BREW Your Way," is about discovering the limitless possibilities of the BREW solution. Targeted at the wireless community in India, BREW 2006 - India focused on bringing together distinguished members of the industry, both from within the country and around the world. The conference was a platform for the launch of innovative technologies and services and will feature exciting keynotes and technical sessions.

Vishal Gupta on BREW Mobile Developers Conference | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Kiruba's Show

Posted by Kiruba Shankar | December 6th, 2006 10:58 am

 It's not often you come across a company where the CEO does not have a corner office but has the same setup as a trainee developer. I was pleasantly surprised that the ThoughtWorks office has an open and innovative culture — something that's not too common in India. The fact that they played a good host to BarCampers over the weekend is a good testimony to that. The credit goes to Rohit Bansal, director of delivery at ThoughtWorks Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. Rohit is the subject of this interview, where he talks about what ThoughtWorks does and how it aims to be more than just another software arm of an international IT company. He joined ThoughtWorks in the U.S. in 1999 as a technology consultant. He spent most of his time working with mostly Silicon Valley startup companies in the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) space. With the intention of promoting the Indian IT industry, he returned to India and set up ThoughtWorks' Indian operations at Bangalore with an initial headcount of 10. He has played multiple roles in ThoughtWorks India, from MD - India Operations to director, Delivery. He has played an important role in helping ThoughtWorks India, grow to its current size and making it the most strategic entity within ThoughtWorks - the global organization. ThoughtWorks India now has grown to 180 people with a new facility in Pune this year. Apart from this, Rohit is passionately involved in various NGO activities.

Rohit Bansal of ThoughtWorks India on Future Plans | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Kiruba's Show

Posted by Kiruba Shankar | December 7th, 2006 12:12 pm

WiMax is the promised shangrila for bigger broadband penetration in India. It's been a distant hope for many years and there's been much hype surrounding it. Lately, we've been hearing about WiMax being deployed in a few cities in India, so it's a good time to get a realistic take on the WiMax scenario. We speak with Sujai Karampuri, the founder and CEO of Sloka Telecom, a company that aims to be an important player in the WiMax market in India. Sujai has 10 years of wireless experience in product development, system architecture and strategy formulation. He has worked with Alcatel in the U.S. and Europe for seven years, where he focused on GSM wireless networks. Later, as system architect for Nortel Networks Division at Sasken, Bangalore, he was involved in overall architecture of GERAN products. Sujai obtained his bachelors from REC, Warangal and got his masters from Michigan Tech, Houghton.

Sujai Karampuri of Sloka Telecom on WiMax Scene in India | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Posted by Kiruba Shankar | December 7th, 2006 1:42 pm

Hack Days seems to be the in-thing amongst developers. The 24-hour coding challenge has caught the fancy of the tech community which is looking for various ways to make work more interesting. Barely a few weeks after Yahoo conducted its much publicized public Hack Day, Sabre Labs is holding one for its employees here in India. Jay Fichialos flew in from the U.S. to India to help coordinate the hack day at Sabre's Bangalore office. Jay Fichialos is a community and technology liaison for Sabre Labs, in Southlake, Texas, where he leads research on where online communities and travel intersect. Most recently he has been guiding the development of Bambora.com a social networking site for travelers, and promoting Hack Day innovation events at Sabre. Jay's professional interests include information visualization, designing for experience, and social change through technology. He's an avid supporter of the BarCamp movement, and has helped organize a number of the events.

Jay Fichialos on Hack Days | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Kiruba's Show

Posted by Kiruba Shankar | December 14th, 2006 2:06 pm I

f there is such a huge growth in mobile phones, how come there are so few mobile blogs around? How difficult or easy is mobile blogging and how does one become a mobile blogger? Jace a.k.a Kiran Jonnalagadda is one of India's earliest mobile bloggers and his moblog is one of the most active ones around. Jace is an information architect, designing web applications and community spaces. He speaks with Kiruba about various issues related to mobile blogging, discussing some very useful tips for folks who are interested in getting started with this new medium.

Get started in Mobile Blogging with Jace, India's First MoBlogger | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Posted by Kiruba Shankar | December 18th, 2006 2:03 pm

DNA has this to say about Picsquare: "Banking on the sentiments of Indians who hold family albums very dear, two techies, both graduates from IIT Bombay, have launched Picsquare, a website that will print and deliver digital photos posted on it anywhere in the country." This Bangalore-based startup is founded by Manish Agrawal, a mechanical engineer, and Kartik Jain, a chemical engineer. Both Agrawal and Jain resigned from corporate jobs to start the venture. They own savings, along with help from a few angel investors, helped get things started. Now, it is being "incubated" by the Bangalore chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs. Picsquare was selected from among 10 contestants in the TiE Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program that aims to foster businesses by a creating an ecosystem similar to the one in Silicon Valley. I got a chance to meet the founders in person in Bangalore. In this interview, they talk about how they got to found the company, their revenue models and their plans for the future. Webyantra also has a review of PicSquare service.

PicSquare's Online Photo Print Business in India | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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Kiruba's Show

Posted by Kiruba Shankar | January 7th, 2007 8:30 am

Abhi Shah is a sharp guy and it would definitely make sense to keep track on his progress. Be it corporate business or politics, he seem to be making the right moves and more importantly he has the passion, zeal and age on his side. Abhi Shah is the CEO of JuriMatrix, an offshore legal solutions company. Prior to this, worked with Accenture, Compaq Computer Corp. and Thomas Nelson, Inc. He is the co-founder and vice president of the U.S. India Business Alliance (USIBA) and also serves as the founder/chairman of the Youth Committee of U.S. India Political Action Committee (USINPAC). Abhi holds an Honors BBA degree in marketing from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Abhi Shah, CEO of JuriMatrix | IndiaTech: Entrepreneurs, Technology, Venture Capital

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PayPal Analysis

Analysis: The New PayPal New payment options include a competitor to Google Checkout By: Massimo Arrigoni

To more than 50 million users, PayPal used to signify a peer-to-peer payment exchange that relied largely on email notifications. Not anymore. While PayPal still stands as one of the most recognized brands in the ecommerce world, it’s no longer a single payment system: It's a suite of different payment options that can assist merchants to start accepting payments online or enhance their existing payment functions. What are they? How do they differ from each other? Which ones should you use, if any? Let's take a look.

Analysis: The New PayPal: New payment options include a competitor to Google Checkout

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