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Preliminary Announcement (PDF)
Background
Open source software is gaining momentum in several forms. In addition to the huge increase in the number of open source projects started and the remarkable rise of FLOSS adoption by companies, new models of participation in the movement are emerging rapidly. For instance, companies are increasingly releasing some of their proprietary software systems as open source on one hand and acquiring open source software on the other hand. Taking the example of two big companies like Sun Microsystems and Nokia, in the former setting Sun has released the Java Platform Standard Edition for Business to their customers while Nokia has acquired Symbian and is giving it away as open source. In the latter setting, Sun has acquired MySQL and Nokia has gone QT after acquiring Trolltech.
Call for Contributions
In this workshop we will explore current and future trends associated with both the state-of-the practice and state-of-the art of open source development. This workshop will focus on studying the practices of open source communities and the way these communities are built and sustained. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Establishment of an open source community
- Practices on developing open source software
- Practices for maintaining a successful project
- Open source software processes
- Differences on open source and closed source software
- Using open source in commercial context
- Quality aspects in open source software
- Teaching open source software in academia and industry
Intended Audience
The goal of the workshop is to bring together interested academics, practitioners, and enthusiasts to discuss topics related to the area of open source software development. The workshop will offer an opportunity for the participants to share experiences and discuss challenges involved in managing and running open source projects. The workshop will also identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead.
Submission
We solicit two kinds of contributions: short position papers describing particular challenges, experiences, or visions relevant to the scope of the workshop (not to exceed 4 pages) and short practitioner briefs in any aspect practitioner viewpoint focused on open source practice (not to exceed 2 pages). Position papers should be novel and not published elsewhere, and are not under review by another publication. Papers must follow, at time of submission, the two column IEEE conference format. To get format description and templates follow the
IEEE link.
Submission Guidelines are available at:
http://www.his.se/infofusion/sasw2009.
Important dates
Papers due: August 30, 2009
Acceptance: September 14, 2009
Final papers due: October 1, 2009
Workshop: October 14-15, 2009
Organization
OSW workshop chair: Björn Lundell
SASW General chair: Sten F. Andler
SEW workshop chair: Karin Breitman
SWIFT workshop chair: Ronnie Johansson
Local arrangements: Pernilla Klingspor
Finance chair: Marcus Brohede
Sponsor Liaison: Anita Andler