[AISWorld] 2nd CfP: Peer Production Project Health track @ AMCIS (deadline: 28/02/2018)

[Georg Link]

== 2nd CfP: Peer Production Project Health ==

Mini-track 2 @ Openness in Research and Practice (SIGOPEN)
AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2018, New Orleans, LA
http://amcis2018.aisnet.org

Submission:    February 28, 2018
Notification:    April 17, 2018
Camera-ready:  April 25, 2018
Conference:    August 16-18, 2018


= Track Description =

Peer production projects include open source, citizen science, or
crowdsourcing
communities, where the community is driving product innovation. Given the
increasing
strategic value of peer production for companies, defining and measuring
health of
peer production projects has become essential for community managers and
other
stakeholders.

Healthy peer production projects should produce quality outcomes, be
long-lived, and
be self-sustained. Health is enabled by community growth, financial
resources, and
collaboration tools. An additional challenge is assessing and monitoring
health within
peer production ecosystems of interrelated projects.

The Linux Foundation recently announced the “Community Health Analytics Open
Source Software” (CHAOSS) project which demonstrates the need for defining
metrics
and methodologies for assessing and monitoring the health of open source
software
projects. This call for papers seeks to advance our theoretical
understanding of peer
production project health.

Relevant papers should investigate not only the definition of peer
production project
health but also metrics to measure health and the context in which these
metrics
should be interpreted. Furthermore, we are interested in the impact of
health on
projects and the whole ecosystem they are participating in as well as the
impact of
using metrics, for example, the potential for gaming the metrics.


= Topics for papers include but are not limited to =

* Uniform definition of peer production project health
* Stakeholders and their interest in project health
* Precursors and determinants of project health
* Metric definitions for project health
* Correlations between project health metrics
* Long-term project health implications
* Impact of project health on various stakeholders
* Behaviors resulting from using health metrics
* Gamification of health metrics
* Project health in open source software ecosystems
* Health implications of interrelated projects in an ecosystem
* Ecosystem health versus individual project health


= Organizing Committee =

Georg Link, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA <glink at unomaha.edu>
Eleni Constantinou, University of Mons, Belgium <
eleni.constantinou at umons.ac.be>
Bram Adams, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada <bram at cs.queensu.ca>


PS: This mini-track is affiliated with SIGOPEN, the AIS special interest
group on
     open research and practice. http://sigopen.org/

-- 
Georg J.P. Link
PhD Student
College of Information Science and Technology | PKI 367
University of Nebraska at Omaha | www.unomaha.edu
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