[AISWorld] OSS 2010: Call for participation and submissions

[Greg Madey]

All,

The 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2010, sponsored by IFIP Working Group 2.13, will be held on the campus of Notre Dame, IN, USA,  May 31-June1, 2010.

     http://oss2010.org/

Although the deadline for full papers has past, several Workshops and the Doctoral Consortium still have open call-for-submissions.

     http://oss2010.org/drupal5/node/11
     http://oss2010.org/drupal5/node/7

Travel support is available for US-based doctoral students attending the Doctoral Consortium.

Workshops include:

Workshop 1: Open Source Policy and Promotion of IT Industries in East Asia
Workshop 2: Second Joint Workshop of QACOS and OSSPL
Workshop 3: Public Data about Software Development
Workshop 4: Second International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities (OSCOMM 2010)
Workshop 5: Open Source Software for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: Practice and Future

Some themes of the general conference include:

 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

Thank you,

The OSS 2010 Organizing Committee
     http://oss2010.org/