Workshop on Accountability and Open Source Software

The goal for this workshop is to inspire an exciting research agenda for scholars, meaningful organizing and stakeholder engagement ideas for practitioners, and engaging conversations for all. As we problematize the notion of accountability in open source ecosystems, we hope to consider different individual and organizational actors such as maintainers, users, contributors, as well as foundations, sponsors, and other for-profit organizations. As entry points to this complex and broad research area, we expect to consider the dynamic ways in which accountability manifests within different contexts, explore the relationships among policy, sustainability, and governance-related concerns, and understand how such macro-level concerns align with or challenge micro-level dynamics in open source communities. 

More details on agenda and participants are now available.  For any questions about the workshop, please reach out at nandini2@andrew.cmu.edu.