SCOPE

Software engineering perspective

* OSS architecture, configuration and release management, environments
* Testing and assuring OSS quality and security
* Mining and analyzing OSS project repositories
* Lessons from OSS for conventional development
* OSS and standards

Studies of OSS deployment

* Case studies of OSS deployment, migration models, success and failure
* Role of OSS in the public sector (government, education, health etc) and 'secondary' software sector (automotive, telco, medical devices etc)
* OSS-compatible IT governance architectures
* Open sourcing — offshore sourcing of development
* OSS applications catalog (functionality, platforms, support providers, training needs)

Social science perspective

* Diversity and international participation in OSS projects
* Learning, knowledge sharing, collaboration, control or conflict in OSS projects
* Dynamics of OSS project communities — building and sustaining

External perspectives & influences

* Diffusion and adoption of OSS innovations
* Economic analysis of OSS - business and migration models
* OSS and alternative intellectual property regimes
* Stimulation of OSS development in vertical domains
* OSS Education