Researching Free/Libre Open
Source Software Communities
Yuwei Lin
UK ESRC National Centre for e-Social
Science, University of Manchester
Yuwei Lin | CITASA Pre-Conference 2008, 31st July 2008, Boston

What is FLOSS? (I)
 Richard Stallman's freedoms and definition
of free software
Yuwei Lin | CITASA Pre-Conference 2008, 31st July 2008, Boston

What is FLOSS? (II)
 Open Source Initiative (OSI)
 Open Source Development Method
Yuwei Lin | CITASA Pre-Conference 2008, 31st July 2008, Boston

What is FLOSS? (III)
 Analogy to other peer-production activities
in today's information society: open science
(Science 2.0), Web2.0, Perpetual Beta,
user-driven, user-created content)
Yuwei Lin | CITASA Pre-Conference 2008, 31st July 2008, Boston