Call for Book Chapters

Book Title: Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries

A book edited by Dr. Sulayman K. Sowe, Prof. Govindan Parayil and Prof. Atsushi Sunami

For further information, please contact: sowe@ias.unu.edu
Abstract Deadline Submission Extended to Monday, November 15, 2010

The key ideas in this book will be drawn from diverse and interrelated topics covering qualitative and quantitative research which has implications for FOSS diffusion and adoption; theories and best practices on FOSS for sustainable development, scientifically grounded models to explain the complex relationships driving FOSS sustainability and innovation in developing countries, FOSS and IPR issues; FOSS case studies and surveys with emphasis on lessons to be learnt; experiences on FOSS policy formulation, and obstacles to policy implementations in developing countries.

Call for chapters can be downloaded from here [pdf, 25kb]:
http://webserv.ias.unu.edu/fel/sites/default/files/Call%20for%20Book%20C...

IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13 Call for Papers

The focus of this track is on new software engineering method for Open Source Software development in distributed and large scaled environments, strategies for promoting, adopting, using Open Source Solutions and case studies or success stories in specific domains.

Important Dates

* Paper Submission - 6/30
* Acceptance/Reject notification - 8/15
* Camera ready - 9/1
* Author registration due date - 9/1

Track: Internet and the Digital Economy
Minitrack: Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents and Open Communities

We seek papers for a mini-track on Open Movement phenomena, such as:
* Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
* Open Contents (OC)
* Open Access Publishing (OA)
* Open Communities (OComm)

1st International Workshop on "D4PL - Designing for participatory learning"
Building from open source success to develop free ways to share and learn

Co-located with OSS 2009, 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems
June 6, 2009, Skövde, Sweden

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Intentions to submit should be sent until 15th of February 2009!
http://www.flosscom.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=90

CALL FOR PAPERS: QACOS-OSSPL 2009

A Joint Workshop of:

QACOS: Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software
OSSPL: Open Source Software and Product Lines

Workshop website: http://www.lero.ie/qacososspl09

in conjunction with the International Conference on Open Source Systems 2009 http://oss2009.org
Skövde, Sweden, 3-6 June, 2009
The workshop will be organised June 6, 2009.

Paper submission (deadline): 24 February 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The First International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source
Communities (OSCOMM 2009 http://tutopen.cs.tut.fi/oscomm09/) in conjunction
with OSS 2009 http://www.oss2009.org/
Skovde, Sweden, June 6, 2009

Intention to submit: February 15, 2009
Paper submission (deadline): February 22, 2009.

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

WoPDaSD 2009: 4th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development

4th edition of the WoPDaSD, co-located with the OSS 2009 Conference
June 6th, 2009, Skövde, Sweden

Motivation

Call for Paper - Open Source Digital Ecosystems - IEEE DEST09

2009 IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and
Business Intelligence
(IEEE-DEST 09)

Istanbul, Turkey, June 1-3, 2009
http://dest2009.debii.curtin.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...
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Full Research Paper Due: ** February 1 **, 2009

All papers accepted will be included in the Proceedings published by IEEE.

CALL FOR PAPERS
OSS 2009 Doctoral Consortium
June 3, 2009, Skovde, Sweden
URL: http://www.oss2009.org/index.php?id=phdconsortium.html

Co-located with OSS2009
The 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems
June 3-6, 2009, Skovde, Sweden
http://www.oss2009.org/

Co-located with the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2009), a Doctoral Consortium will be organized on June 3, 2009.

GOAL