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Factors Leading to Success or Abandonment of Open Source Commons: An Empirical Analysis of Sourceforge.net Projects (with Robert English and Sandra Haire), South African Computer Journal (2009)
Open source software is produced cooperatively by groups of people who work together via the...
 

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Open-Source Collaboration: Two Cases in the U.S. Public Sector (with Michael Hamel), First Monday (2009)
Globally, there is an emergence of open source consortia focused on the sharing of resources...
 

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Reflections of an Online Geographic Information Systems Course Based on Open Source Software (with Maria Fernandez, Michael Hamel, Prakash Kashwan, Quentin Lewis, and Alexander Stepanov), Social Science Computer Review (2009)
This article summarizes the experience of offering an online introductory course on geographic information systems...
 

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Forest fragmentation and regrowth in an institutional mosaic of community, government and private ownership in Nepal (with Harini Negendra, S Pareeth, B Sharma, and K Adhikari), Landscape Ecology (2007)
This study analyzes forest change in an area of Nepal that signifies a delicate balance...
 

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Identifying Success and Abandonment of FLOSS Commons: A Classification of Sourceforge.net Projects, Upgrade: The European Journal for the Informatics Professional (2007)
Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects are a form of commons where individuals work...
 

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Tragedy of the FOSS Commons? Investigating the Institutional Designs of Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects (with Robert English), First Monday (2007)
Free/Libre and Open Source Software projects (FOSS) are a form of Internet-based commons. Since 1968,...
 

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An Institutional Analysis Approach to Studying Libre Software “Commons”., Upgrade: The European Journal for the Informatics Professional (2005)
Anyone interested in Libre software will be interested in the question of what leads to...
 

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Open Source and Open Content: a Framework for Global Collaboration in Social-Ecological Research (with Tom Evans and J Morgan Grove), Ecology and Society (2005)

Traditional approaches to the communication and validation of scientific research, e.g., peer review, and to...

 

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The Open Research System: A Web-based Metadata and Data Repository for Collaborative Research (with Alexander Stepanov and J Morgan Grove), Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2005)
Beginning in 1999, a web-based metadata and data repository we call the "open research system"...
 

Papers in Edited Volumes

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“Brooks’ versus Linus’ Law: An Empirical Test of Open Source Projects (with Robert English, Meelis Kitsing, and Haire Sandra) (2008)
In this paper, we investigate collective action in open source software development, where both volunteers...
 

Free / Open Source Software as a Framework for Scientific Collaboration (2007)
 

Linking Disciplines across Space and Time: Useful Concepts and Approaches for Land-Cover Change Studies (with Glen M. Green and J C. Randolph) (2005)
 

Retrieving Land-Cover Change Information from Landsat Satellite Images by Minimizing Other Sources of Reflectance Variability (with Glen M. Green and J C. Randolph) (2005)
 

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Modeling human-environmental systems (with J Morgan Grove, Tom Evans, and Glen Green) (2002)
This chapter focuses on the integration and development of environmental models that include human decision...