WikiSym 2012 - 8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

The conference program will include a peer-reviewed research track, experience reports, workshops, posters, demos, a doctoral consortium, invited keynotes and panel speakers. As always, the participant-organized Open Space track will run throughout the conference. Evening social events will follow, because wiki folks know the value of a good party for sparking conversation and collaboration. Finally, WikiSym co-occurs with Ars Electronica, and we are arranging experiences where conference attendees can enjoy this innovative and unusual event.
Topics appropriate for submissions include all aspects of the people, tools, contexts, and content that comprise open collaboration systems. For example:
Collaboration tools and processes
Social and cultural aspects of collaboration
Collaboration beyond text: images, video, sound, etc.
Communities and workgroups
Knowledge and information production
New media literacies
Uses and impact of wikis and other open resources, tools, and practices in fields and application areas, for example:
Open source software development and use
Education and Open Educational Resources
E-government, open government, and public policy
Law/Intellectual Property (including Creative Commons)
Journalism (including participatory journalism)
Art and Entertainment (including collaborative and audience-involved art)
Science (including collaboratories)
Publishing (including open access and open review models)
Business (including open and collaborative management styles)
In addition to research and development topics, WikiSym also invites innovative proposals for open, collaborative art and performance. These proposals should be made directly to the conference chairs.
GENERAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
All accepted submissions will be published in the WikiSym proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Long and short research papers will be rigorously peer reviewed and treated as archival publications. Submissions to other tracks will also be reviewed and appear in the ACM DL, but they are considered to be non-archival and may be used as the basis for later publications. Authors of research papers should use the ACM/CHI SIG Proceedings Format, and other contribution types will use the ACM/CHI Extended Abstracts Format. Templates for both formats are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
General submission instructions will be posted and the conference submission site opened around March 1. Instructions for the various contribution types are below.