Bio:
Ruben van Wendel de Joode (Msc) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft, University of Technology. He is part of the Dutch Institute of Government (NIG), the research school for public administration and political science. His research focuses on the organization of open source communities. He received two grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for research related to open source communities. The first grant was to study the interplay between intellectual property rights and open source communities. The results are published in Governing the Virtual Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He has written numerous articles on open source, which have appeared in journals like Electronic Markets; Knowledge, Technology and Policy; and the International Journal of IT Standards & Standardisation Research. He is the guest editor of a special edition on open source in Knowledge, Technology and Policy.In September 2005 he will defend his doctoral thesis with the title “Understanding open source communities; an organizational perspective.”