Introduction to Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents, Open Access, and Open Communities Minitrack

The Open Movements mini-track continues eleven earlier HICSS mini-tracks addressing the trend towards the adoption of open strategies. The track focuses on open source projects, especially Open Source Software development, though it also includes issues around Open Content creation, Open Access publishing and Open Communities more generally. The track is mainly directed to FLOSS developers and researchers who study the FLOSS phenomenon. This year the mini-track accepted four submissions. A focus in this edition of the mini-track is the use of tools which aid and streamline open source project development. We introduce the papers in the order in which they were scheduled at the conference.