CFP WFS2006 - 7th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE - Porto Alegre (Brazil)

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Please feel free to circulate this call for papers.

Hope to see you in Porto Alegre, to share enthusiasm for Software Livre in Brazil :)

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CFP WFS2006 - 7th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE - Porto Alegre (Brazil)


         WFS2006 - 7th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE
         AS PART OF THE FREE SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL FORUM 2006
             Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil) - April 19-22, 2006
                Sponsored by Brazilian Computer Society
                 CALL FOR PAPERS of INTERNATIONAL TRACK

Free software (aka Libre Software, or OpenSource Software), has gained
tremendous momentum all over the world, and is recognised as one of the
major trends of the software industry, as well as an example for
creation and diffusion of all intellectual goods in a networked economy,
drawing ne models for the Information Society.

Still businesses or organisations, governments or individual users need
to clarify their views concerning adoption or participation to the
development of Free Software.

Beyond anecdotal success or failure of some particular Free Software
projects, which will attract the media attention, researchers are
studying the complex mix of technical, economical and social factors
that regulate laws of the Libre Software projects and communities.

The 7th International Workshop on Free Software (WFS2006), which will be
co-located with the International Free Software Forum 2006, intends to
present and discuss the developments and research activities related to
libre software carried out in academia and industry. Three main tracks :
National, International and Free Software in
Universities, will provide the attendance with a good mix of foundational
works and return on experience.

Authors are invited to submit papers describing finished or under
development work related to relevant aspects of libre software. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:

      * Free software-based research;
      * Comparing and evaluating free software solutions against
        proprietary solutions;
      * Adaptation and expansion of free software;
      * Academic experimentations using free software;
      * Use of free software in education;
      * Emerging technologies supported by free software;
      * Operating system distributions;
      * Networks and distributed systems;
      * Free software on databases, imaging processing, computer
        graphics;
      * Free software for artificial intelligence;
      * Digital inclusion;
      * E-government and free software;
      * E-Commerce and free software;
      * Public digital services;
      * Regional integration, and globalization.

Accepted papers will be included in the WFS 2006 proceedings. At least
one author of each accepted paper should register to the event and be
present at WFS2006 to present the work in one of the three .

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should be written in English and formatted following the
Brazilian Computer Society style. Paper templates are available at
https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/templates

Papers are limited to 8 pages. Authors should submit their work
registering the paper and uploading a PDF file through the electronic
submission Web site at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=281

IMPORTANT DATES

        Paper submission due: February 20, 2006
        Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2006
        Camera-ready due: March 17, 2006
        
GENERAL CHAIR:

        Adenauer Corrêa Yamin (UCPEL/UFPEL), Brazil
        
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:

        Olivier Berger (GET/INT), France
        
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

        being defined
        
Permanent address of this CFP :
http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/www/?q=en/node/88

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P.S.: mirror of this CFP in my blog at
http://www-inf.int-evry.fr/~olberger/weblog/?p=72 (including comments
facility).

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Olivier BERGER <[email protected]>
Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
INT Evry (http://www.int-evry.fr)
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