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Call for Papers

Note: Submission deadline has been moved to November 15th.

Over the past decade, the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. F/OSS has challenged the conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business communities, has become a useful instrument for educators and researchers as well as an important aspect of e-government and information society initiatives. F/OSS is a complex phenomenon that requires an interdisciplinary understanding of its engineering, technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.

The goal of OSS 2009 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community from academia, industry and public administration can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer.

Call for papers in .txt format

Conference Topics

The conference will consist of research papers presentations, workshops, tutorials, panels, and project demonstrations.

Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals on a variety of OSS topics, including but not limited to:

Important Deadlines:

Instructions For Submission:

Submissions are invited for original research papers and proposals for tutorials, workshops, panels, or demonstrations. Papers from student researchers are particularly welcome. The official language of the conference is English. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Full papers should be between 3000-5000 words not including references, and formatted 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. Submissions should be submitted electronically through the conference website.

Conference Publication:

Papers accepted for the conference will be included in the conference proceedings, which are published by Springer. Authors of accepted papers will be therefore be required to sign a copyright transfer (as well as register for and attend the conference). IFIP is planning a digital library to disseminate conference proceedings; details will be posted when available. The conference organizers are planning special issues related to the conference in the International Journal of OSS and in the Journal of the AIS. If such issue is accepted, selected authors of papers will be invited to submit revised versions of their papers for consideration for these special issues. At least one author of each conference paper will be required to register for the conference and to come to the conference to present the paper. All participants at the conference will be required to register and to pay the registration fee.

Conference Officers

Advisory committee

Program committee

IFIP Working Group on Open Source Software - IFIP WG 2.13