ABSTRACT
FOSSD is mostly not about SE, at least not as SE is
portrayed in modern SE textbooks (e.g., Sommerville[1]).
FOSSD is also not SE done poorly. It is instead a different
approach to the development of software systems where
much of the development activity is openly visible, and
development artifacts are publicly available over the Web.
Furthermore, substantial FOSSD effort is directed at
enabling and facilitating social interaction among devel-
opers (and sometimes also end users), but generally there is
no traditional SE project management regime, budget, or
schedule. FOSSD is also oriented toward the joint devel-
opment of an ongoing community of developers and users
concomitant with the FOSS system of interest.
