CfP: Free/Libre/Open Source Software Workshop at ICSE 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development (FLOSS-3) Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010 Co-located with ICSE 2010 Cape Town, South Africa URL: http://orac.ece.utexas.edu/pub/icse-floss/ Overview The theme of this workshop will be "Rich Ecosystems within FLOSS". A large body of research into FLOSS has focused on the exemplars within the available corpus of FLOSS projects: such as Apache HTTP Server, Eclipse, and Linux. However, many other FLOSS projects exist which provide a very rich body to study and understand. By focusing on more projects that perhaps do not gain the immediate attention of researchers, we hope to broaden our knowledge of the rich ecosystems within FLOSS. Specifically, the goal of this workshop is to bring together academic researchers, industry members and FLOSS developers for the purpose of discussing topics including: * Analyzing "competing" projects within FLOSS that share the same domain * Governance models within FLOSS projects * Licensing paradigms of FLOSS projects * Interplay of corporate involvement within FLOSS projects * Social and technical interactions between FLOSS projects * Dependency analysis and reuse between FLOSS projects To this end, we will solicit position papers presenting field reports, case studies, analytical frameworks and key research questions, which serve to improve the communication and the impact of FLOSS products, methods, tools and organizational structures in a variety of application spaces. The workshop will be divided in four sessions: the first three will have blocks of presentations of position papers and attached discussion and comments by the assistants. To boost the participation of the attendees and effectiveness of the discussion, the last block will be devoted to discuss actively some of the most prominent (and polemic) aspects of the position papers presented, using some of the methods in use in unconferences and acting the workshop proposals as facilitators. Relevance to the Field FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) is now well recognized as an important research area within both the Software Engineering and Information Systems fields, as evidenced by the growing number of related journal papers, conference papers, workshops and seminars. As FLOSS development continues to grow and become an evermore pervasive and global approach to the development of dependable software through non-traditional means (i.e., does not simply follow the software engineering paradigm found in textbooks), this ICSE workshop will be an appropriate place for leading FLOSS and SE scholars to come together to discuss and exchange their research work in progress. We believe that this workshop will also serve as a common bridge between the ACM/IEEE (ICSE) and (IFIP) OSS research communities, thereby providing a window for others in the Software Engineering community to interact with and learn more about the advances of research into FLOSS development an communities. To insure participation, representation and cross-fertilization across the ACM/IEEE (ICSE) and (IFIP) OSS research communities, members of the program committee of this workshop will be drawn also from the committee of the OSS 2009 Conference. Submissions: Both preliminary results (6 pages) and position papers (3 pages). Paper submissions must be formatted according to ICSE guidelines. Important Dates: [ 25 January 2010 ] - paper submission (through CyberChair, more info TBD) [ 15 February 2010 ] - notification of acceptance [ 3 March 2010 ] - camera-ready [ 8 May 2010 ] - Workshop Organizing Committee: Justin Erenkrantz, The Apache Software Foundation, US Hyrum K. Wright, University of Texas at Austin, US Program Committee: Christian Bird, University of California, Davis, US Andrea Capiluppi, University of Lincoln, UK Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, US Yeliz Eseryel, University of Groningen, Netherlands Martin Michlmayr, Hewlett-Packard, UK Peter Rigby, University of Victoria, Canada Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine, US Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University-Silicon Valley, US