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CALL FOR PAPERS
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International workshop on the Critical Aspects of Releasing Open
Source Software (CAReOSS) -
www.careoss.org
Held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Open
Source Systems (OSS 2018) -
www.oss2018.org
Sunday, June 10th 2018, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens,
Greece
Scope and topics
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Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is playing an essential
role in the success of the large, complex and sophisticated
software solutions that we design, build and deploy today and its
ongoing adoption among businesses, governments, and other
organizations offers a constantly expanding ground for
collaboration, business development and innovation.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and
members of the FLOSS community to discuss the critical
underpinnings of a decision to release software with a Free/Libre
Open Source License. The goal is to identify and elaborate on the
pragmatic concerns involved in the decision, covering aspects that
include, but are not limited to, the following:
* FLOSS and business models: Can it strengthen a business model,
paving the way to new opportunities?
* FLOSS and innovation: Is it suitable for an innovative startup
or small company?
* FLOSS and licensing: Which license should be chosen and what
risks are involved, if any?
* FLOSS and communities: What social and technical skills are
required to build an international FLOSS community?
* FLOSS and the software lifecycle: How FLOSS affects the software
development lifecycle (methodology, tooling, project governance
and team management)?
* FLOSS and sustainability: How does the cost of developing and
maintaining FLOSS compares to developing and maintaining
proprietary software? By and large, is FLOSS more sustainable
than proprietary software?
The workshop seeks for contributions that will elaborate on the
above or related topics and discuss lessons learned, suggest best
practices, report on previous experience (reflecting on successes
or failures), pinpoint anti-patterns, and, ultimately, articulate
the crucial issues to be taken under consideration by the decision
makers (such as software developers, product managers, business
stakeholders).
Important dates
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* Submission of papers: April 1
* Notification of acceptance: April 11
* Camera-ready paper due: April 25
Submission guidelines
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All submissions must be 5 pages maximum in the Springer conference
paper format. The bibliographic references do not count towards
the page limit.
All authors should submit their papers through easychair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oss2018).
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings,
which will be published by Springer in IFIP Advances in
Information and Communication Technology (IFIP AICT) Series. All
information relevant to contributing authors regarding the IFIP
AICT print/electronic publication process can be found at
http://www.springer.com/series/6102.
Particularly we would like to ask the authors to apply the
Springer conference paper templates, which can be found in the
author’s instruction page (
https://goo.gl/r83B1W).
Workshop Organizers
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* Kostas Saidis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
& National
Technical University of Athens (Greece)
* Agapios Avramidis, Niovity (Greece)
Program Committee
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* Sandro S. Andrade, Federal Institute of Education, Science and
Technology of Bahia (Brazil)
* Panagiotis Astithas, Mozilla (USA)
* Claudio Atzori, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, CNR (Italy)
* Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus (Greece)
* Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University (Greece)
* Nikolaos S. Papaspyrou, National Technical University of Athens
(Greece)
* Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
* Yannis Smaragdakis, National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens (Greece)
* Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business
(Greece)
* Prodromos Tsiavos, Onassis Cultural Center (Greece)