CFP: Third International Conference on Open Source Systems, Limerick, IE 11-14 June 2007

                                 OSS 2007
                                    
           THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS 
   
                       June 11-14 2007, Limerick, Ireland

        CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
                          
                        http://oss2007.dti.unimi.it/

Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a global
impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire  and
use software and  software-based services. OSS  has challenged the  conventional
wisdom of the software engineering  and software business communities, has  been
instrumental for educators and researchers, and hasbecome an important aspect of
e-government and information  society initiatives. OSS  is a complex  phenomenon
and requires  a interdisciplinary  understanding of  its engineering, technical,
economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.

The  goal of  OSS 2007  is to  provide an  international forum  where a  diverse
community of professionals from academia, industry and public administration can
come  together  to  share  research  findings  and  practical  experiences.  The
conference is also meant to provide information and education to  practitioners,
identify directions  for further  research, and  to be  an ongoing  platform for
technology transfer.

The  conference  will  consist  of  research  papers  presentations,  workshops,
tutorials, panels, and project demonstrations.

Authors are invited to submit papers  and proposals on a variety of  OSS topics,
including but not limited to:

	- OSS Historical Foundations and Emerging Trends 
	- Public and Private Sector Adoption of OSS Solutions 
	- OSS, Open Science and "Open Knowledge" 
	- OSS, Health Services Management and E-Health  	
	- Knowledge Management, e-Learning and OSS 
	- OSS Education and Training 
	- Socio-cultural Dynamics of OSS 
	- OSS and Social Networks 
	- OSS Usability, Scalability, Maintainability and other quality issues
	- Tools and infrastructures for OSS Development 
	- Architectures and patterns for OSS Development 
	- Techniques and processes for OSS Development 
	- OSS and Agile Development 
	- OSS and Distributed Development 
	- Documentation of OSS projects 
	- Licensing, IPR and other legal issues in OSS 
	- Free software and GPLv3  
	- OSS and Innovation  
	- OSS and e-government  
	- OSS Business models and strategies 
	- Cost, value and economic models of OSS 
	- Empirical analysis of OSS including surveys, field  studies, case studies,
	  experiments and experience reports.


                              IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Jan 12th, 2007: Submission of  Research Papers
Feb 9th, 2007:  Notification  of acceptance
Mar 1st, 2007:  Submission of final papers


                          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, with a  12pt
serif font and 1.5 line spacing.  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
.sxw  (OpenOffice.org),   .rtf,  .doc,   .pdf  or  LATEX   format   through the
conference website. 

CONFERENCE OFFICERS

General Chair: Walt Scacchi  
Program Chairs: Joseph  Feller and Alberto Sillitti 
Organising Chair: Brian Fitzgerald 
Tutorial Chair:  Ernesto Damiani 
Workshop Chair: Scott  Hissam 
Panel Chair: Sandra  Slaughter 
Publicity Chair: Barbara Russo 
Web Master: Alberto Colombo, Fulvio Frati

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