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Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers**** ============================================================================**** ** ** Thanks to consider contributing and forwarding to interested associates the attached FOSS Conference Call for Papers**** ** ** *Free and Open Source Software Conference * *(FOSSC-Oman 2013**)** * *February 18-19, 2013*** *MUSCAT, OMAN * http://www.fossc-oman.net/ <http://www.fossc-oman.net/> **** ** ** A Number of distinguished experts in Free and Open Source Software will attend the event and present addresses on the main topics of the conference.**** ** ** *Submission deadline: December 28, 2012 (Extended)* ============================================================================**** ** ** The *FOSSC-Oman**’**2013 *Conference will be jointly organized by the Communication and Information Research Center at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), and the Information Technology Authority (ITA), on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to support the National Initiative on this theme. It will be for two days and aims to promoting awareness and disseminating the use and development of free and open source software for professionals, staff, students, and the community in Oman. The FOSSC-Oman’2013 event is the first edition of this conference which will be held every two years in Oman to offer ICT managers, professionals, developers, users and interested persons of FOSS a good opportunity to discover, discuss and exchange ideas on FOSS in Oman and beyond. The event will also provide the opportunity to network different groups of FOSS users, benefit from insightful lectures delivered at the conference, and share mutual experiences and discuss potential implementations of FOSS. The goal of this is to bring free and open software to Oman. The organizing committee is inviting managers, and individuals who have passion, students, educators and experts from companies, public and private organizations to share their successes in the vast array of free and open source software that is transforming information and communication technology across the globe.**** The range of targeted topics is very broad, but priority is given to subjects on real world applications in home, education, research and business. Based on this, the program committee is inviting proposals for paper presentations, demonstrations and poster contributions on any topic relevant to FOSS. These include but not limited to the following:**** *Software Engineering and tools:***** · Architecture, configuration and tools.**** · Scalability, usability and maintainability.**** · Testing, analysis and quality assurance.**** · Projects documentation. **** · Operation systems *Innovation, Development and legalisms:***** · Innovations. **** · Social Media.**** · Licensing.**** · Legal issues.**** · Migrating to FOSS**** * Mobile Applications:***** Applications for mobile systems using open platforms, such us:**** · Android.**** · Meego.**** · WebOS**** * Desktop FOSS Applications:***** · FOSS on Windows desktops.**** · E-learning and Knowledge management.**** · Open systems in public & private sectors.**** · Home, government, health, education and business.**** * Security:***** · Risk management. **** · Information flow control.**** · Encryption and cryptography.**** · Security and privacy standards.**** · Runtime verification and monitoring.**** · Tools in managing security and privacy.**** *Important Dates:***** · Early registration: *Nov. 29, 2012*.**** · Submission deadline: * Dec. 28, 2012.***** · Notification of acceptance: * Jan. 26, 2013.***** ** ** Kindly submit your paper through the online system @ submission system<http://www.fossc-oman.net/openconf/openconf.php> **** Any inquiries should be sent to *c...@squ.edu.om* <c...@squ.edu.om>** ** ** ** ** *With best regards * */The organizing committee/ *
