Open Implementation Site Guide

Beyond the Black Box: Open Implementation.: A short overview of the Open Implementation idea, from the January 1996 issue of IEEE Software.
Advance reading for the first Workshop on Open Implementation.: A longer discussion of Open Implementation, including examples and issues it raises. It also includes links to commentary.
Towards a New Model of Abstraction in the Engineering of Software.: A 75 minute talk that presents the motivation for Open Implementation along with the basic issues in proper design of Open Implementations.
Open Implementation and MOPs: Notes from an earlier tutorial that show how to use OO programming techniques to support Open Implementation of programming languages. Many of the concepts in here apply to other kinds of open implementation as well.

These examples point into the workshop advance reading.

Operating Systems
Programing Languages and Parallelism High Performance Fortran Pragmas Metaobject Protocols
Networking and Communication
Software Engineering