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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For those keeping track, I've publicized POSA to the following:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Creative Commons</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Berkman Center</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">F/OSS Research Community (MIT)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Politech (list)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CNI (list)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Media and Democracy Scholars (list)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OSI's technology policy list</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">EFF deep links</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">~100 Friends of the SSRC Culture, Creativity and Information Technology Program (the umbrella under which this was conducted)</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">And dropped some friendly notes to some online journals / bloggers</FONT>
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<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thomas Greene - The Register</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The Inquirer</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Brad Delong</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Josh Green</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">How about you?</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Slashdot? Boing Boing? Nettime? Groklaw? APC? </FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">J</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The Politics of Open Source Adoption</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Read – Contribute – Win! </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The Social Science Research Council invites you to collaborate on a real-time history of the politics of open source software adoption. We are pleased to offer a first version of this account</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma">—</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">POSA 1.0—in both .pdf and wiki versions</FONT><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">,</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> at </FONT><A HREF="http://www.ssrc.org/wiki/POSA"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.ssrc.org/wiki/POSA</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> . POSA 1.0 includes contributions from Gabriella Coleman, Kenneth Cukier, Shay David, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Eugene Kim, Volker Grassmuck, Bildad Kagai, Nicolas Kimolo, and Jennifer Urban, and is edited by Joe Karaganis (SSRC) and Robert Latham (SSRC). </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Our project begins with the observation that accounts of the Free and/or Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement, to date, have been oriented mostly by the improbable fact of F/OSS’s existence. At this stage of F/OSS development and advocacy, we want to ask a different set of questions</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma">—</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">not how open source works as a social and technical project, or whether open source provides benefits in terms of cost, security, etc., but rather how open source is becoming embedded in political arenas and policy debates. For our purposes, understanding the ‘politics of adoption’ means stepping back from the task of explaining or justifying F/OSS in order to ask how increasingly canonical explanations and justifications are mobilized in different political contexts. POSA 1.0 maps many of the different kinds of political and institutional venues in which F/OSS adoption !
is at stake. It tries to understand important institutional actors within those venues, and the ways in which arguments for and against F/OSS are framed and advanced. It seeks to clarify the different opportunities and constraints facing F/OSS adoption in different sectors and parts of the world. It is an inevitably partial account that--we hope--can be extended and deepened by other participants in these processes. We invite your help in preparing POSA 2.0.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">To sweeten the pot, two prizes of $250 will be awarded to the best new contributions to POSA 2.0 .</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">This project was made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation.</FONT>
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