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The 17th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS
2021)
https://www.oss2021.org
12-13 May 2021
Lahti, Finland
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Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has emerged as one of the
most important phenomena in computer science, engineering, and
collaboration at large. It has had a major impact on the
information technology industry, has changed software development
practices world-wide, and has been instrumental for education and
research in academia, providing free access to essential tools and
pioneering research on large-scale peer production. FLOSS has
changed the way people perceive the software business and helped
in keeping markets away from monopolies and lock-in risks. As
such, a deep understanding of FLOSS requires an understanding of a
wide spectrum of issues.
The 17th edition of the International Conference on Open Source
Systems (OSS 2021), true to the conference traditions, will be a
holistic forum on the advances in the theory and practice of
FLOSS, for people from very diverse backgrounds. All traditional
OSS topics will be covered and welcome (see full list below). In
addition, OSS 2021 will have a special focus on large-scale open
source, covering topics such as, but not limited to:
The use of FLOSS in large organizations, including private
for-profit corporations, major non-profit organizations, large
public administrations, etc.
The migration to FLOSS from proprietary systems in said large
organizations.
- The development and maintenance of very large FLOSS systems,
such as individual software products made of multi-million lines
of code or entire software ecosystems encompassing tens of
thousand components.
- The study and analysis of very large FLOSS systems, as defined
above, focusing on traits such as evolution, quality, and health,
of both the systems themselves and the associated communities.
- Wide-area collaboration and peer production using FLOSS and/or
aimed at developing them. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,
experience reports about how FLOSS systems have enabled remote
work, remote conferences, or remote collaboration will be
particularly welcome.
OSS 2021 will bring together people from industry and academia to
share experiences and ideas as well as to provide an archival
source for scholarly papers on FLOSS topics. The conference will
also inform and educate practitioners, identify directions for
further research, and offer a platform for ongoing technology
transfer.
The conference will accept three kinds of submissions:
- Research papers (max 10 pages): Submissions describing original
research in the area of FLOSS systems. Research papers that
discuss actionable insights resulting from the presented results
will be particularly welcome.
- Tool papers (max 5 pages): Submission describing the novel
release or original development of software applications,
libraries, frameworks, or other FLOSS tools that have a
significant user base or have been used to achieve significant
practical results. Tool papers are expected to include a
validation section showing the usefulness of the presented tools.
- Experience reports (max 5 pages): Submissions reflecting on the
experience of adopting FLOSS processes, techniques, tools,
business models, best practices, etc. in an industry, community,
or public sector context.
Note that, to allow for more complete and fully formatted
reference lists, bibliographic references do not count towards the
page limit.
Topics of Interest:
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Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
- Business models for FLOSS
- Cost and quality models for FLOSS
- Diversity in FLOSS communities
- Documentation of FLOSS
- Empirical analysis of FLOSS development artifacts
- FLOSS and agile methodologies
- FLOSS in DevOps workflows
- FLOSS and E-government
- FLOSS case studies and experiments
- FLOSS education and training
- FLOSS in large organizations and public administrations
- FLOSS in the wider Open* ecosystem: Open Culture, Open Data,
Open Hardware
- FLOSS licensing
- FLOSS projects and communities
- Foundations and rationale of FLOSS
- Human factors in FLOSS
- Impact of FLOSS on collaboration and peer production
- Knowledge management in FLOSS
- Legal issues and policies in FLOSS
- Migrations from proprietary to FLOSS systems
- Remote collaboration on FLOSS projects and using FLOSS tools
- Software health in FLOSS systems and communities
- Tools and methodologies for FLOSS development and management
Submission Details:
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All submissions must present original work, unpublished, and not
under submission elsewhere. The authors must clearly explain the
contribution of the work in terms of its theoretical and/or
practical value and situate it in relationship to previous work.
Submissions must be in English and conform to
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.
Papers should submit as PDF files at:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oss2021#<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oss2021>
All accepted submissions will be included in the conference
proceedings, published by Springer. The Open Access status of the
official proceedings is still being determined. In any case, open
access preprints of all accepted submissions will be collected and
referenced from the conference website.
OSS 2021 Best Papers - Special Issue:
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A selection of conference distinguished papers will be announced
at the conference and invited to submit extended paper versions to
the upcoming special issue on large-scale open source software of
the journal Science of Computer Programming, published by
Elsevier.
Important Dates:
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- Abstract submission: January 3rd, 2021
- Paper submission: January 10th, 2021
- Authors notification: February 07th, 2021
- Camera ready: February 21th, 2021
- Conference: May 12th-13th, 2021
Organizers:
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- Davide Taibi, Tampere University, Finland (General Chair)
- Valentina Lenarduzzi, LUT University, Finland (Program
Co-Chairs)
- Stefano Zacchiroli, Université de Paris and Inria, France
(Program Co-Chairs)
- Fabio Palomba, University of Salerno, Italy (Special Issue
Chair)
- Terhi Kilamo, Tampere University, Finland (Proceedings Chair)
- Gemma Catolino, TU Delft, Netherlands (Social Media and
Publicity Chair)
- Sonja Hyrynsalmi, LUT University, Finland (Local Co-chairs)
- Sami Hyrynsalmi, LUT University, Finland (Local Co-chairs)
- Antti Knutas, LUT University, Finland (Streaming Chair)
- Jose Camposano, LUT University, Finland (Website Chair)
Valentina Lenarduzzi, PhD
Researcher
LUT University - School of Engineering Science
Mukkulankatu, 19 - Lahti (Finland)
valentina.lenarduzzi@lut.fi<mailto:valentina.lenarduzzi@lut.fi>
0058 050 5668791
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