[Nottingham] Fwd: OSS 2012 Call For Contributions: The 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems

[Martin]

Folks,

All in the world of FLOSS, and also a good excuse for some warmth and sunshine?

Thanks to Carlos for forwarding.

Any takers?

Cheers,
Martin



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OSS 2012 Call For Contributions

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The 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems

(http://oss2012.org/)



Hammamet, Tunisia, 10-13 September 2012





Scope of OSS 2012

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Over the past two decades, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has
introduced new successful models for creating, distributing, acquiring
and using software and software-based services. Inspired by the
success of FLOSS, other forms of open initiatives have been gaining
momentum. Open source systems (OSS) now extend beyond software to
include open access, open documents, open science, open education,
open government, open cloud, open hardware, open artworks and museum
exhibits, open innovation and more. On the one hand, the openness
movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as the emergence
of new business models, knowledge exchange mechanisms, and collective
development approaches. On the other hand, the movement has introduced
new kinds of challenges, especially as different problem domains
embrace openness as a pervasive problem solving strategy. OSS can be
complex yet widespread and often cross-cultural. Consequently, they
require an interdisciplinary understanding of their technical,
economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.



The goal of 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS
2012, the first to be held in Africa, is to provide an international
forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia,
industry and public sector, and diverse OSS initiatives can come
together to share research findings and practical experiences. The
conference is also meant to provide information and education to
practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an
ongoing platform for technology transfer, no matter which form of OSS
is being pursued.



OSS 2012 accepts submissions in the following categories: research
papers, industry papers, formal tool demonstrations, lightning talks
and posters. OSS 2012 also invites proposals for tutorials and
workshops, submissions to the doctoral symposium, and submissions of
panels. Accepted papers will be included in the conference
proceedings, which are published by Springer. The major conference
theme is long-term sustainability with OSS.





Topics of Interest

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OSS sustainability

- Sustainability models of OSS

- Building sustainable OSS communities

- Role of OSS in ICT and sustainable development

- Mining sustainability related data from OSS communities

- Experience reports and lessons on sustainable OSS ecosystems



OSS as innovation

- Adoption/ use / acceptance of OSS

- Dissemination / redistribution / crowdsourcing of OSS systems

- Expanding scientific research and technology development methods
through openness

- Adopting innovation in OSS projects



OSS practices and methods

- OSS and traditional / agile development methods

- OSS and decentralized development

- Knowledge and documentation management in OSS



OSS technologies

- OSS over the Internet

- Security of OSS

- Interoperability / portability / scalability of OSS

- Open standards / open data / open cloud / open hardware / open exhibits

- Reuse in OSS

- OSS for entertainment

- OSS for education

- Architecture and design of OSS



Economic / organizational / social issues on OSS

- Economic analysis of OSS

- Business models of OSS

- Maturity models of OSS

- OSS in public sector

- OSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing

- Non-Governmental Organizations and OSS





Important Dates (Deadlines)

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Submissions due: March 9, 2012



Workshop proposals: March 16, 2012



Panels and tutorials proposals: May 25, 2012



Results to authors: April 13, 2012



Camera-ready copy due: May 11, 2012



Early registration: June 15, 2012





Submission

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Upload contributions in PDF format at http://oss2012.org/.





Organization

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General Chairs:

Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine, USA

Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland



Program Chairs:

Imed Hammouda, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Sweden



Local Organizing Chair:

Said Ouerghi, University of Manouba, Tunisia

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Carlos D Santos Jr., PhD

Research Fellow @ University of Nottingham

https://www.horizon.ac.uk/

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