OSS 2016 - 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems

The 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems (http://oss2016.org)
Gothenburg, Sweden, 30 May - 02 June 2016
**** Scope of OSS 2016 ****
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has had a disruptive effect on the
software industry and the ways that organizations and individuals create,
distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. The
FLOSS movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as the
emergence of new business models, knowledge exchange mechanisms, and
collective development approaches. On the other hand, the movement has
introduced new kinds of challenges, especially as different problem
domains embrace openness as a pervasive problem solving strategy. FLOSS
can be complex yet widespread and often cross-cultural. Consequently, they
require an interdisciplinary understanding of their technical, economic,
legal and socio-cultural dynamics.
Many organizations that have been known for developing proprietary
software are now actively involved with FLOSS. FLOSS adoption continues to
grow among businesses, governments, and other organizations. FLOSS remains
important for educators and researchers, as well as an important aspect of
e-government and information society initiatives, providing access to
high-quality software and the code used to create it.
The goal of 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2016
is to provide an international forum where a diverse community of
professionals from academia, industry and public sector, and diverse FLOSS
initiatives can come together to share research findings and practical
experiences. The conference is also a forum to provide information and
education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and
to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer, no matter which form of
FLOSS is being pursued.
OSS 2016 accepts submissions in the following categories: research papers,
industry papers, formal tool demonstrations, and posters. The page limit
is 12 for full papers, 6 for short papers, industry papers, and tool
demonstrations, and 2 for poster submissions. To allow for more complete
and fully formatted reference lists, bibliographic references do not count
toward the page limit. OSS 2016 also invites proposals for tutorials and
workshops, submissions to the doctoral consortium, and submissions of
panels. More information on submission guidelines is available on the
conference web site: http://www.oss2016.org. Accepted papers will be
included in the conference proceedings, which are published by Springer.
The major conference theme is integrating communities.
**** Topics of Interest ****
Integrating communities
- Challenges of building and maintaining open source communities
- Organization and interaction schemes in open source communities
- Models and classification schemes of communities
- Mining data from open source communities
- Experience reports and lessons about integrating communities
FLOSS as innovation
- Adoption / use / acceptance of FLOSS
- Publishing / dissemination / redistribution of FLOSS systems
- Expanding scientific research and technology development methods through
openness
- Adopting innovation in FLOSS projects
FLOSS practices and methods
- FLOSS and traditional / agile development methods
- FLOSS and decentralized development
- Knowledge and documentation management in FLOSS
FLOSS technologies and applications
- Security of FLOSS
- Interoperability / portability / scalability of FLOSS
- Open standards / open data / open cloud / open hardware
- Reuse in FLOSS
- Architecture and design of FLOSS
- FLOSS for entertainment
- FLOSS for education
- FLOSS in the public sector
Economic / organizational / social issues of FLOSS
- Economic analysis of FLOSS
- Business models for FLOSS
- Maturity models for FLOSS
- FLOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing
- Non-Governmental Organizations and FLOSS
**** Important Dates (Deadlines) ****
Submissions due: January 4, 2016
Workshop proposals: January 4, 2016
Panels and tutorials proposals: February 22, 2016
Results to authors: February 15, 2016
Camera-ready copy due: March 07, 2016
Early registration: February 29, 2016
**** Submission ****
Upload contributions in PDF format at http://oss2016.org.
**** Organization ****
General Chairs:
Imed Hammouda, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA
Program Chairs:
Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Sweden
Gregorio Robles, King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Local organizing chair:
Juho Lindman, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Advisory Committee:
Alberto Sillitti, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA