[Air-L] [Fwd: Call for Participation: OSS 2010 Conference, Notre Dame, 30 May-2 June 2010]

[Gabriella Coleman]

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Subject: Call for Participation: OSS 2010 Conference, Notre Dame, 30 
May-2 June 2010
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:35:24 -0500
From: IFIP OSS2010 <info at oss2010.org>
To: Gabriella Coleman <biella at nyu.edu>

Dear Gabriella Coleman,

Attached is the call for participation for the upcoming IFIP WG 2.13 OSS 
2010 Conference, to be held at Notre Dame 30 May-2 June 2010. We would 
appreciate your passing the call on to colleagues and students who might 
be interested in the topic.


Call for Participation--OSS 2010 Conference
The Sixth International Conference on Open Source Systems
IFIP Working Group on Open Source Software – IFIP WG 2.13
30 May – 2 June, 2010
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Email: info at oss2010.org
http://oss2010.org

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS & PROPOSALS

The sixth annual Conference on Open Source Systems will consist of
research presentations, workshops, tutorials, panels, posters and
project demonstrations.
Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals on a variety of
free, libre, and open source topics, including but not limited to:

Software engineering perspectives: Challenges and opportunities
• F/OSS architectures, configuration and release management
• F/OSS development environments
• Testing, assuring and certifying F/OSS quality and security
• F/OSS usability, scalability, maintainability and other quality issues
• Mining and analyzing F/OSS project repositories
• Lessons from F/OSS for conventional development
• F/OSS and standards
• Open sourcing vs. off-shoring of development
• F/OSS and agile development
• Tools and infrastructures for F/OSS development
• Models of reuse
• Architectures, patterns, techniques and processes for F/OSS development
• F/OSS and distributed development
• Documentation of F/OSS projects

Emerging perspectives: Lessons from F/OSS applied to other fields
• Diffusion and adoption of F/OSS innovations
• F/OSS and alternative intellectual property regimes
• F/OSS, Open Science, Open Engineering and "Open Knowledge"
• Licensing, IPR and other legal issues in F/OSS
• F/OSS and innovation

Social science: Understanding organizational and psychological issues in
F/OSS
• Diversity and international participation in F/OSS projects
• Learning, knowledge sharing, collaboration, control & conflict
in F/OSS projects
• Dynamics of F/OSS project communities, building and sustaining
• F/OSS historical foundations
• F/OSS and social networks
• F/OSS and social inclusion
• Economic analysis of F/OSS
• Knowledge management, e-learning and F/OSS

Studies of F/OSS deployment: Current studies and future issues
• Case studies of F/OSS deployment, migration models, success and failure
• F/OSS in the public sector (e.g., government, education, health care)
• F/OSS in vertical domains and the 'secondary' software sector
(e.g., automotive, telecommunications, medical devices)
• F/OSS-compatible IT governance architectures
• F/OSS applications catalog (functionality, evaluation,
platforms, support providers, training needs)
• F/OSS education and training
• F/OSS, e-government and transformational government
• F/OSS business models and strategies
• F/OSS and the one laptop per child initiative

IMPORTANT DATES
27 December 2009: Submissions due
27 December 2009: Submission of workshop, tutorial and panel proposals
17 January 2010: Results to Authors
7 February 2010: Camera-ready copy due
12 March 2010: Early registration (payment received)
31 May – 1 June 2010: Main Conference
30 May & 2 June 2010: Workshops and Tutorials
31 May – 1 June 2010: Main Conference

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
General Chairs:
Greg Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, Spain

Local Organizing Chair:
Greg Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA

Program Chairs:
Par Agerfalk, Uppsala University, Sweden
John Noll, University of Limerick, Ireland
Cornelia Boldyreff, University of Lincoln, UK

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Kris Ven, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Walt Scacchi, University of California - Irvine, USA
Jen Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Publicity & Social Media Chair:
Megan Squire, Elon University, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs:
W. Europe: Yeliz Eseryel
UK and Ireland: Andrea Capiluppi
Nordic Countries: Bjorn Lundell
Japan: Tesuo Noda
Africa: Sulayman Sowe
Middle East and S. Asia: Faheen Ahmed
Russia and E. Europe: Alexey Khoroshilov

Tutorial Chair:
Petrinja Etiel, Free University of Bolzno-Bozen, Italy

Panels Chair:
Joseph Feller, University College Cork, Ireland




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New York University
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