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IFIP WG 2.13 WORKING CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS 7th to 10th September 2008, Milan, Italy co-located with IFIP World Computer Congress 2008 http://www.wcc2008.org/) CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES AND PLATFORMS Communities of OS developers have come together to achieve significant accomplishments in the development and propagation of not only open source software but methods and practices that rival, and sometime surpass, many traditionally closed source development companies. How these OS communities form, innovate, operate, and sustain themselves over time to satisfy and actually grow the marketplace for software continues to attract not only cross discipline researchers but also industry analyst. Furthermore, this marketplace will continue to grow only if the solutions provided by the community can be trusted in the software systems that employ and integrate open source software. In this track, we solicit rigorous research and supported studies into the nature of OS communities as well as the platforms (in the broad sense, for example; legal, economic, cultural, etc.) that support those communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Motivation, participation, and performance * Knowledge management and retention * OS community support infrastructures * Data mining * Innovation * Organizational aspects * Social network analysis * Collective decision making and aggregation * Trust * Sustainability * Business and industry to OS communities collaboration * Software engineering development processes and practices Track Chair: Scott A. Hissam Scott A. Hissam is a senior member of the technical staff for the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, where he conducts research on component- based software engineering and Open Source Software. His previous publications include two books, papers published in international journals including IEEE Internet Computing and Journal of Software Maintenance , and numerous technical reports. Scott is a founding member of the IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software and has served as workshop chair and as tutorial chair for the International Conference on Open Source Systems. He has also been a co-organizer for the Open Source Software Engineering workshop series at the International Conference on Software Engineering. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - January 3rd, 2008 Extended Submission of Track Papers - February 18th, 2008 Results to Authors - April 7th, 2008 Camera Ready due - 7-10 September 2008 OSS2008 Conference in Milan INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION: Submissions are invited for original research papers and proposals for tutorials, workshops, panels, or demonstrations. The official language of the conference is English. Full papers should be between 3000-4000 words including references, following the template provided in the Author's Kit section. Each submission must include a cover page with the full title of the paper and the names of all authors. The body of the paper should include title, abstract, list of keywords and a complete list of references. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. All submissions should be submitted electronically in either .odt (OpenOffice.org), .rtf, .doc, .pdf or LATEX format through the conference website. CONFERENCE OFFICERS General Chair: Ernesto Damiani and Giancarlo Succi Web Master: Alberto Colombo and Fulvio Frati _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
