Administrivia
Professor Pam Samuelson
Email: pam@sims.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30pm-4:00pm 434 North Addition (at the Law School) [434 North Addition is Pam's office at the law school. She will also be available by appointment at SIMS in Rm. 305B.]
Professor Steven Weber
Email: steve_weber@berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Monday 11:58pm-11:59pm 224, Moses Hall [Time is to be decided (current time is a dummy for the XML instance to validate!)]
Instructor Mitch Kapor
Email: mitch@kapor.com
Office Hours: Monday 2:45pm-3:30pm 314, South Hall
TA Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Email: joehall@berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00pm-2:00pm 6, South Hall
Course Information
Course Dates: August 29 to December 5, 2005
Lecture Schedule: Monday 4:00pm-6:30pm in 202 South Hall
Units: 3
Grading Option: Letter Grade only
Course Texts
Required
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks. Addison-Wesley Professional, August, 1995. ISBN: 0-201-83595-9
Reader
Available at Copy Central on Bancroft
Course Work
August 29 : Monday
September 12 : Monday
September 19 : Monday
September 26 : Monday
October 3 : Monday
Open Source Business Models (Part II)
Required Readings
"Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business and Took Microsoft by Surprise" Robert Young and Wendy Goldman Rohm [Reader]
"The Wall Street Performer Protocol: Using Software Completion Bonds to Fund Open Source Software Development" Chris Rasch [Online]
First Monday 6 (2001)
October 10 : Monday
Roles of Open Source & Proprietary Software in the Private Sector
Guest Lecturer: To Be Decided
Required Readings
"Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright" Eben Moglen [Online, 107-]
The Commodification of Information, Niva Elkin-Koren and Neil Weinstock Netanel, eds. (2002)
Speech by Microsoft Senior Vice President at NYU Stern School of Business, Craig Mundie [Online] (May 2001)
"Code, Culture, and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development" David Lancashire [Online]
First Monday 6 (2001)
October 17 : Monday
Government Policy About Open Source
Required Readings
"Politics And Programming: Government Preferences for Promoting Open Source Software" David S. Evans [Online]
Government Policy Towards Open Source Software, Robert Hahn, ed. (2002)
"Free/Libre Software and Open Source Software, Survey and Study" Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Bernhard Krieger, Ruediger Glott and Gregorio Robles [Online]
EU Policy Part 2 B (2002)
October 24 : Monday
Regulability of Open Source/Open Source as a Global Phenomenon
Required Readings
"The Limits in Open Code: Regulatory Standards & the Future of the Net" Lawrence Lessig [Online, 759-]
Berk. Tech. L. J. 14 (1999)
"The Paradoxes of Free Software" Stephen M. McJohn [Reader, 25-]
Geo. Mason L. Rev. 9 (2000)
October 31 : Monday
November 7 : Monday
November 14 : Monday
Adapting the Open Source Concept to Biotech Innovations
Guest Lecturer: Steve Maurer of Goldman School of Public Policy (website)
Required Readings
November 21 : Monday
Adapting the Open Source Concept to Other Digital Content: Creative Commons and Public Library of Science
Required Readings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia [Online]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines [Online]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPOV [Online]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Community [Online]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Power_structure [Online]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foundation_issues [Online]
November 28 : Monday
December 5 : Monday
Adapting the Open Source Concept to Principles of Democratic Governance
Guest Lecturer: Beth Noveck of New York Law School (website)
Required Readings
"Workers and World Views" Charles Sabel [Reader]
Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry, Charles Sabel. (1984)
"What if Open Source Principles of Governance Find Their Way into Communities of Knowledge and Practice in Politics?" Steven Weber [Reader]
Open Sources II, Editor Unknown, ed. (Forthcoming)
last updated on 2005-08-30 by J.H.