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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

UNU-MERIT

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh is Founding International and Managing Editor of First Monday, the on-line journal of the Internet, and Senior Researcher at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) at the United Nations University, the Netherlands. He has written about the economics of free software since 1994, and has led several major research projects on the topic, funded by the European Commission, the US National Science Foundation and the Dutch government.

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11:35am Thursday, 07/24/2008

Open Source / Open World

Emerging Topics
Location: Portland 255

Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and REvolution Computing), Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (UNU-MERIT), Harshad Gune (Symbiosis International University), Martin Michlmayr (Hewlett Packard), Nnenna Nwakanma (OSI, nnenna.org), Bruno Souza (Sun Microsystems), Alolita Sharma (Technetra, OSI) Moderated by: Danese Cooper

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It's been 10 years since the term open source was coined in the U.S., and in that time transparent commons-based software development has changed the face of the U.S. software industry. But what impact has open source had outside of the U.S.? This panel will introduce you to five people who report on the reach and impact of open source worldwide. Learn how we're changing the world!! Read more.