This looks like something for our Italian and perhaps Slovenian teams? Cheers Yo
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [FOSS-PDI] Call for papers / participants for tOSSad 2006 Date: Friday 17 March 2006 20:01 From: Görkem Çetin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FOSS - Policy and Development Implications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bülent Özel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please, pass the information to whom may be interested. Thanks. Best Görkem TUBITAK - UEKAE FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATIONS: ************************************************************************** TOSSAD 2006 - A Workshop on Governmental, Educational, Usability, and Legal Issues towards Open Source Software Adoption (tOSSad) in an enlarged Europe Co-located with The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems Como (Italy), June 10th 2006 http://www.tossad.org/tossad/events/tossad_2006 *********************************************************************** PLEASE NOTE: Accepted papers/reports/case analysis/demonstrations will be presented at the workshop and will be published as tOSSad2006 Proceedings. AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: The main objective of this tOSSad workshop at OSS 2006 meeting is to integrate, and to discuss already formed methodologies, strategies, skills and technologies in F/OSS domain in order to help governmental bodies, educational institutions and SMEs to share research results, establish synergies, build partnerships and innovate in an enlarged Europe. The workshop will be organized around parallel and/or serial sub-tracks covering themes that are listed below. The technical nature of the workshop will consist of presentations of technical reports and/or scientific papers; case analysis; demonstrations followed by interactive discussions. Although relatively focused studies from tOSSad project are planned to compose a part of the workshop, primarily, contributions from other related EU/non-EU projects, researchers, and practitioners are expected. Submitted papers, reports, case analysis or proposal for demonstrations will be collected by related conveners and will be reviewed by the programme committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and will be published as tOSSad2006 proceedings. The workshop encourages submissions on all topics listed under following sub-themes: THEME 1- Legal, Administrative and Financial Weaknesses/Barriers, and Possible Solutions Convenor(s): Manon van Leeuwen & Bülent Özel Focus: The sub-theme accepts technical papers, case analysis, and proposals addressing following issues: * What are the legal barriers? * How to comply with IT Laws while developing, and procuring F/OSS solutions within public bodies? * What are the effects of software piracy on F/OSS adoptions and acceptance? * What kind of Administrative and Financial Weaknesses hinder F/OSS adoptions? THEME 2- F/OSS in National Programmes Convenor(s): Bülent Özel & Brian Restall Focus: Authors are invited to submit reports or technical papers on success stories, possible policies and strategies towards a wider adoption of F/OSS technologies within public administrations, NGOs, SMEs, and educational institutes. THEME 3- F/OSS Usability Convenor(s): Sandra Frings & Görkem Çetin Focus: This subtheme is intended for practitioners, software developers, HCI specialists and project managers who want to deploy user centered design process of a distributed and/or F/OSS project. The sub-theme encourages submissions on following topics: * Continuous and sustainable usability in F/OSS projects *Distributed and remote usability in F/OSS projects *Differences between Internet-led or vendor-led usability *Usability and F/OSS development process *F/OSS usability tests and reports *Out of box experience for F/OSS products *Usable GUI design *Empirical work related to F/OSS usability *Opportunities for proactive and supportive users *Localization, accessibility and internationalization *Evaluation of usability *Application scenarios and demos THEME 4- F/OSS Curriculum Development and Best F/OSS Training and Learning Methods Convenor(s): Michele Marchesi & Graham Attwell Focus: The sub-theme consists of two different tracks: 1.Open tOSSad Project F/OSS Curriculum Development Workpackage workshop where invited talks will be delivered and results of tOSSad Workpackage will be discussed. 2.Presentations of submitted and reviewed papers addressing following issues: Case analysis and demonstrations on successful F/OSS training and learning methodologies and systems. Possible frameworks while developing F/OSS curricula for K12s, NGOs, youth empowerment centers, university graduate and post graduate studies F/OSS e-learning methodologies TARGET AUDIENCE: Workshop is targeted but not limited to the following audiance: -F/OSS policy makers, -F/OSS practitioners, -F/OSS business entrepreneurs/proffesionals, -F/OSS trainers and teachers, -Researchers, -F/OSS users. IMPORTANT DATES: 14th April 2006 Submission of abstracts/papers 21st April 2006 Notification of acceptance 5th May 2006 Camera ready paper due 10th June 2006 Workshop in Como(Italy) SUBMISSON: The abstract (500-800 words) of the paper/report/demonstration must be sent in acrobat (pdf) format to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on submission of abstracts/papers: http://www.tossad.org/tossad/events/tossad_2006/submission tOSSad: tOSSad ( www.tOSSad.org ) is an EU FP6 project funded under IST-3. It aims at improving the outcomes of the F/OSS communities throughout Europe through supporting the coordination and networking of these communities by means of state-of-the-art studies, national program initiations, usability cases, curriculum development and implementation of collaborative information portal and web based groupware. By conducting these actions on an international European level, with inclusion of the ACC and NMS countries the tOSSad project acts for a general acceptance and coordinated boost of F/OSS development. 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