CPPA to honor Schweik, alumnus at Sept. 6 book launch party
Charles Schweik, associate professor of Public Policy and Environmental Conservation, and alumnus Robert English, co-authors of the just published Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons, will be honored by the Center for Public Policy and Administration at a book launch party on Thursday, Sept. 6 from 4-6 p.m. in the Gordon Hall atrium.Published by the MIT Press, Internet Success is the result of the first large-scale empirical study examining the social, technical and institutional aspects of open source software. Schweik and English look at the factors that lead to some open source projects successfully producing usable software and sustaining ongoing product development, while other open source projects are abandoned.
The book has received praise from the open source software community, including a review by David Bollier.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
