Open Source Communities and Platforms

Call for Papers in text Version

Communities of OS developers have come together to achieve significant accomplishments in the development and propagation of not only open source software but methods and practices that rival, and sometime surpass, many traditionally closed source development companies. How these OS communities form, innovate, operate, and sustain themselves over time to satisfy and actually grow the marketplace for software continues to attract not only cross discipline researchers but also industry analyst. Furthermore, this marketplace will continue to grow only if the solutions provided by the community can be trusted in the software systems that employ and integrate open source software.

In this track, we solicit rigorous research and supported studies into the nature of OS communities as well as the platforms (in the broad sense, for example; legal, economic, cultural, etc.) that support those communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Motivation, participation, and performance
Knowledge management and retention
OS community support infrastructures
Data mining
Innovation
Organizational aspects
Social network analysis
Collective decision making and aggregation
Trust
Sustainability
Business and industry to OS communities collaboration
Software engineering development processes and practices

Submission Instructions

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, following the template provided in the Author's Kit section. 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 .odt (OpenOffice.org), .rtf, .doc, .pdf or LATEX format through the track submissions system.

Important Deadlines:

January 3rd, 2008	Extended Submission of Research Papers
February 22nd, 2008	Results to Authors
April 3rd, 2008	Camera Ready due
7-10 September 2008	OSS2008 Conference in Milan

Track Committee

Name

Affiliation

Kevin Crowston

Syracuse University, USA

Mahmoud Elish

King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia

Jeremy Hayes

University College Cork, Ireland

Joseph Kiniry

University College Dublin, Ireland

Gregory Lopez

Thales, France

Paul Malone

Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

Catharina Melian

Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Paolo Pumilia

EST, Italy

Walt Scacchi

University of California, Irvine, USA

Barbara Scozzi

Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Gregory Simmons

University of Ballarat, Australia

Sandra A. Slaughter

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Charles Weinstock

Software Engineering Institute, USA

Hongbo Xu

South China University Of Technology, China

Track Chair: Scott A. Hissam

Scott A. Hissam is a senior member of the technical staff for the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, where he conducts research on component-based software engineering and Open Source Software. His previous publications include two books, papers published in international journals including IEEE Internet Computing and Journal of Software Maintenance , and numerous technical reports. Scott is a founding member of the IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software and has served as workshop chair and as tutorial chair for the International Conference on Open Source Systems. He has also been a co-organizer for the Open Source Software Engineering workshop series at the International Conference on Software Engineering.