<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear U.S. based Free and Open Source Software researchers,<br><br>We have received a number of excellent submissions for the Doctoral <br>Consortium co-located with the 7th International Conference on Open <br>Source Systems (OSS) in Salvador, Brazil on October 5th, 2011 <br>(<a href="http://ossconf.org/2011/doctoral-consortium">http://ossconf.org/2011/doctoral-consortium</a>). However, most of the <br>submissions are from students in countries outside the United States. We <br>still have fellowship funding to support a few more U.S. citizen <br>participants (note that the fellowship includes support to attend the <br>OSS 2011 conference, see <a href="http://ossconf.org/">http://ossconf.org</a>).<br><br>If you know of a U.S. doctoral student working on a dissertation that is <br>related to OSS research who might be interested in participating in the <br>Consortium, please have him or her contact me (by email) before June <br>20th, 2011 for possible consideration.<div><br></div><div>For questions contact:</div><div>Dr. Charlie Schweik<br>University of Massachusetts, Amherst<br><a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Greg Madey</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>