INFO 290 Spring 2010 Syllabus

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SCHEDULE:

Wed., January 20

 * Course Overview/ Introduction pt1

Wed., January 27

 * Course Overview/ Introduction pt2

Wed., February 3

 * Other introductory content:


 * David Bollier, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, New Press (2009).


 * Tim O'Reilly, Open Source Paradigm Shift.


 * Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, Science (Dec. 13, 1968).

Wed., February 10

 * Open Source and Competition in the software industry


 * Ronald Mann, The Commercialization of Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter?, 20 Harv. J. L. & Tech. (2006).


 * Sean Silverthorne, Microsoft v. Open Source: Who Will Win?, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge.


 * a discussion about how proprietary SW firms are reacting to OSS
 * The "Halloween Document" (Internal Microsoft Memo by Vinod Vallopillil, 1998) annotated by Erik Raymond.

Wed., February 17

 * Open Source Business & Economics


 * Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, The Simple Economics of Open Source.


 * Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Cooking pot markets: an economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet, First Monday 3, 1998.


 * Siobhán O'Mahony, The Organizational Model for Open Source, HBSWK, 2003.

Wed., February 24

 * Wikipedia session pt1

Wed., March 3

 * Wikipedia session pt2

Wed., March 10

 * Open Source as a Production Process


 * Karl Fogel, Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, (2006), Chaps. 3-4.


 * Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

Wed., March 17

 * User-created Value and Virtual Economies


 * Mia Garlick, Creative Commons presentation in Second Life, "Age of the Conducer" (April 2006).


 * Dan Hunter & F. Gregory Lastowka, The Laws of the Virtual Worlds, 92 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2004).

March 24

 * SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

March 26

 * SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

Wed., March 31

 * Open Access Journals and Publications

Wed., April 7

 * Regulability of Open Source/Open Source as a Global Phenomenon
 * Lawrence Lessig, The Limits in Open Code: Regulatory Standards & the Future of the Net, 14 Berk. Tech. L. J. 759 (1999).

April 9

 * BCLT Copyright Conference

Wed., April 14

 * Collaborative authoring
 * Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Dan R. Cosley, and Geri Gay, What's Mine is Mine: territoriality in collaborative authoring, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (2009).

Wed., May 5

 * Class Presentations

May 7

 * No class meeting