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Here's a Wiki created to document "The Politics of Open-Source Adoption." The project claims to create a "real-time history and analysis" of how open-source software projects are selected and deployed in various institutional contexts. Although this project is a little more oriented toward organizational studies than my research interests, the introduction makes a good point, explaining "Our project began with the observation that accounts of the F/OSS movement, to date, have been oriented mostly by the improbable fact of F/OSS’s existence." I agree that most academic work on open source software development focuses on how distributed volunteer project can mobilize and organize resources to create useful software.

In Wiki-related news, "Peanut Butter Wiki" is a new project that allows users to "Make a free, password protected wiki as easily as a peanut butter sandwich." I would probably explain it to another RTF student as "a Hotmail for Wikis," a hosted service for creating small-scale wikis. I can't think of anything worth Wiki-ing at the moment, but it might be interesting to create a class Wiki in one of my seminars when school starts back up.