CS419
Special Topics Course in Open Source Development

Add citations to your papers here, in the appropriate category. (Make up a new category if you need to). It is desirable to add a one or two-sentence annotation as well.

Employment

• Finding an Open Source Job
• Jobs for Hackers

Gender Differences

• Report on Gender Differences in Free/Open Software Communities

Hacker Culture

• The Hacker Manifesto by +++The Mentor+++
• Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator
• The Ecology of Open Source Software Development, by Kieran Healy.
• World Domination Paper

Open Source in Education

• Computer science Education in the 21st century, written by David Patterson, president of the ACM, the largest computer science professional organization
• The urgency of engineering education reform, By Dr. Wm A. Wulf.
• Integrative Computing Education and Research (ICER) Final Report of the Northwest Regional Meeting:
• Open Source Software and Computer Science Education
• Teaching Objects First in Introductory CS
• Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research (Critique of Vulgar Raymondism) Ok, I just ran across this looking for more relevant papers for my Paper/Patch 1, but this looks like it could spur some good discussion. Abstract: Eric Raymond's bazaar model provides a too simplistic view of the open source software (OSS) development process. This paper tries to explore links between open source software development and academic research as a better paradigm for OSS development. Open source software development should better be viewed as a special case of academic research. Viewing OSS this way probably can lead to a better understanding of open source phenomena.
• What's a Computer Science degree worth these days?, by Philip Greenspun.
• The University Computer Science Curriculum: Education vs Training
• The Usability of Open Source Software

Open Source in Developing Countries

• Open Source Software in Developing Economies, by Steven Weber
• Information Policies and Open Source Software in Developing Countries
• Finding Cures for Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source an Answer?

Open Source and Information

• Open Source Intelligence

Project Management

• Running a Successful Project
• Ecology of Open Source Software Development

Software Usability

• The Usability of Open Source Software Interesting article about different usability issues in open source software, and approaches on how it can be improved.

Open Source in Business

• Open, but not as usual. Article from the Economist discussing open source business models and how they are being applied to not just software.
• Open source at 90 MPH Interview with the creator of the OScar project
• Has Open Source lost its Halo?
• Open Source Business Models: A Wall Street Look at a Wild 2006 and Prospects for Even More Fun in 2007, by Brent C. Williams.

Miscellaneous current topics in CS