[Wikitech-l] Call for participation OSS 2009 Conference, Skövde, Sweden (fwd)

There is a annual conference for Open Source Software organized by IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing, and this year it's in Sweden. It's held in June in Skövde, a small town along the railroad 150 km from Göteborg (towards Stockholm). I've never been to one of these. I was informed about it by the local co-organizer. Should we try to show-case Mediawiki and/or WMF projects there? Does anybody have a paper to present? -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:19:40 +0100 From: Bjorn Lundell <bjorn.lundell(a)his.se> To: Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> Subject: Call for participation OSS 2009 Conference, Skövde, Sweden Hej Lars, Skickar över lite info om OSS 2009 och du får gärna sprida denna information till dina kollegor... --Björn Call for participation OSS 2009 Conference, Skövde, Sweden You are cordially invited to participate in The 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2009) 3-6 June 2009, Skövde, Sweden http://oss2009.his.se/ http://oss2009.org/ Registration is now open at the registration site: http://oss2009.org/index.php?id=aboutregistering.htm Over the past decade, the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. F/OSS has challenged the conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business communities, has become a useful instrument for educators and researchers as well as an important aspect of e-government and information society initiatives. F/OSS is a complex phenomenon that requires an interdisciplinary understanding of its engineering, technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics. The goal of OSS 2009 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community from academia, industry and public administration 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 technologytransfer. Important Dates: 12 March 2009: Early registration (Payment received) 3-6 June 2009: OSS 2009 Conference in Skövde, Sweden 3 June 2009: Doctoral Consortium and tutorials 4-5 June 2009: Main Conference 6 June 2009: Workshops Keynotes: The organizers are happy to announce the keynotes for the conference: Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation and Brian Behlendorf, founder of the Apache Software Foundation and of CollabNet. More information about these speakers can be found at http://oss2009.org/index.php?id=keynote.htm Women@OSS breakfast: At breakfast on June 4th there will be a networking event "Women@OSS breakfast". Women@OSS Breakfast - come along to what we hope will the first of a regular OSS conference event where you'll be able to meet other women working and researching in OSS! We'd like to see more women taking an active role within the OSS community and in the OSS conferences and workshops. Our keynote speaker of the day, Stormy Peters, will be attending as will many of the women presenting at OSS. It's your chance to network and contribute towards planning a bigger Women@OSS event at OSS 2010. Doctoral consortium: A doctoral consortium is planned for June 3rd. The co-chairs are Walt Scacchi, Kris Ven & Jan Verelst; the faculty for the consortium include Joseph Feller, Daniel M. German, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Maha Shaikh & Giancarlo Succi. Funding may be available to support student participation in the consortium. Workshops and tutorials: The OSS 2009 conference includes 6 workshops and one tutorial. More detail on the workshops, including submission instructions, can be found at: http://oss2009.org/index.php?id=workshops.htm - WoPDaSD 2009: 4th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development - First International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities - 1st International Workshop on D4PL - Designing for participatory learning - A Joint Workshop of QACOS and OSSPL: Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software - Open Source Software and Product Lines - NESSI OSS Workshop - Serious Games and Open Source: Practice and Futures A tutorial will be offered on the MUSIC platform, which supports the development of self-adaptive mobile applications. The tutorial will provide basicinformation on MUSIC methodologies and tools and on MUSIC middleware. Accepted papers: Architecture of OSS Drivers in the Modularization of FLOSS Systems A. Capiluppi, University of Lincoln, UK. Design Evolution of an Open Source Project Using an Improved Modularity Metric R. Milev, S. Muegge, and M. Weiss, Carleton University, Canada. Software Engineering in Practice: Design and Architectures of FLOSS Systems A. Capiluppi and T. Knowles, University of Lincoln, UK. Mining OSS data Analysis of Open Source Software Development Iterations by means of Burst Detection Techniques B. Rossi, B. Russo and G. Succi, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy. Measuring Potential User Interest and Active User Base in FLOSS Projects A. Wiggins, J. Howison, and K. Crowston, Syracuse University, USA. Estimating Commit Sizes Efficiently P. Hofmann and D. Riehle, SAP Research, USA. Empirical research on OSS Reporting Empirical Research in Open Source Software: The State of Practice K.-J. Stol and M. A. Babar, University of Limerick, Ireland. How Much Does It Take to Achieve One MegaLOC in Open Source? J. Fernandez-Ramil, D. Izquierdo-Cortazar and T. Mens, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; The Open University, UK. An empirical study of the reuse of software licensed under the GNU General Public License D. M. German and J. M. Gonzalez-Barahona, University of Victoria, Canada; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. OSS Communities Reassessing Brooks’ Law For The Free Software Community A. Capiluppi and P. J. Adams, University of Lincoln, UK. “Peeling the Onion” H. Masmoudi, M. den Besten, C. de Loupy and J.-M. Dalle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France; University of Oxford, UK; Syllabs & University of Nanterre, France. Group Maintenance Behaviours of Core and Peripheral Members of Free/Libre Open Source Software Teams M. J. Scialdone, N. Li, R. Heckman and K. Crowston, Syracuse University, USA. Commercial OSS Beyond the business model: Incentives for organizations to publish softwaresource code J. Lindman, J.-P. Juutilainen and M. Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. Opening Industrial Software: Planting an Onion P. Sirkkala, T. Aaltonen and I. Hammouda, Tampere University of Technology,Finland. Providing Commercial Open Source Software: Lessons Learned Ø. Hauge and S. Ziemer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Adoption of OSS The Importance of External Support in the Adoption of Open Source Server Software K. Ven and J. Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Customization of Open Source Software in Companies S. Keßler and P. Alpar, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Choosing Open Source ERP Systems: What Reasons Are There For Doing So? B. Johansson, F. Sudzina, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Company participation in OSS Quality of Open Source Software: the QualiPSo Trustworthiness Model V. del Bianco, L. Lavazza, S. Morasca and D. Taibi, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy. Challenges of the Open Source Component Marketplace in the Industry C. Ayala, Ø. Hauge, R. Conradi, X. Franch and J. Li, Technical Universityof Catalunya, Catalunya; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. A Survey on Firms’ Participation in Open Source Community Projects E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Public Sector usage of OSS What Constitutes Open Source? A Study of the Vista Electronic Medical Record Software J. Noll, California Lutheran University, USA. Openness to standard document formats in Swedish public sector organisations B. Lundell and B. Lings, University of Skövde, Sweden. User-involvement in OSS design FLOSS UX design: An analysis of user experience design in Firefox and OpenOffice.org P. M. Bach and J. M. Carroll, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Integrating HCI Specialists into Open Source Software Development Projects H. Hedberg and N. Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland. A Survey of Usability Practices in Free/Libre/Open Source Software C. L. Paul, KDE. Education and OSS Using FLOSS Project Metadata in the Undergraduate Classroom M. Squire and S. Duvall, Elon University, USA. Undergraduate Research Opportunities in OSS C. Boldyreff, A. Capiluppi, T. Knowles and J. Munro, University of Lincoln,UK. The conference also includes a poster session featuring accepted academic and industry posters. Conference venue: Skövde is situated between the two main cities of Sweden, Gothenburg and Stockholm and can be reached easily from each. The OSS 2009 conference willbe held at First Hotel Billingehus, Skövde, Sweden. The hotel is situated on the mountain of Billingen, and the Hotel restaurant offers sweeping views across the plains of Västergötland. More information about the venue can be found at: http://www.firsthotels.com/sv/Billingehus Conference officers: General Chair Tony Wasserman, Carnegie-Mellon West, USA, USA Program Chairs Cornelia Boldyreff, University of Lincoln, UK Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA Organizing Chair Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Sweden Advisory committee Brian Fitzgerald, LERO - Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Program committee Pär J. Ågerfalk, Uppsala University, Sweden Andrea Bonaccorsi, Universita' di Pisa, Italy Andrea Capiluppi, University of Lincoln, UK Antonio Cerone, United Nations University, Macau SAR, China Gabriella Coleman, New York University, USA Jean Michel Dalle, Marie Curie University, France Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Paul A. David, Stanford/Oxford University, USA/UK Chris DiBona, Google, USA Justin Erenkrantz, Apache Software Foundation, USA Joseph Feller, University College Cork, Ireland Daniel German, University of Victoria, Canada Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, MERIT, Netherlands Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Stefan Haefliger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jean-Luc Hardy, Eurocontrol, France Ewa Huebner, University of Western Sydney, Australia Joachim Henkel, Technische Universitat München, Germany James Herbsleb, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Scott Hissam, Software Engineering Institute CMU, USA James Howison, Syracuse University/CMU, USA Chris Jensen, University of California, Irvine, USA Stefan Koch, University of Economics and BA, Austria Derrick Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa Jean Pierre Laisne, OW2, France Greg Madey, Notre Dame University, USA Herwig Mannaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium Pentti Marttin, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland Martin Michlmayr, HP Austria Steven Muegge, Carleton University, Canada Mahmoud R. Nasr, Middlesex University, UK John Noll, Santa Clara University, USA Bülent Özel, Instanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Paolo Massimo Pumilia-Gnarini, Animat Association, Italy Dirk Riehle, SAP Labs, USA Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Cristina Rossi Lamastra, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Francesco Rullani, Copenaghen Business School, Denmark Craig Russell. Sun, USA Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine, USA Barbara Scozzi, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Gregory Simmons, University of Ballarat, Australia Sandra Slaughter, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Robert Sutor, IBM, USA Megan Squire, Elon University, USA Frank van der Linden, Philips, The Netherlands Georg von Krogh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Web Master Henrik Gustavsson, University of Skövde, Sweden OSS 2009 is sponsored by the IFIP Working Group on Open Source Software - IFIP WG 2.13: http://www.ifipwg213.org/