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Betreff: OpenSym 2018 | August 22-24, 2018 | Paris, France | General Call for Papers | Deadline March 15, 2018
Datum: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:52:25 +0100
Von: The Open Symposium <info@opensym.org>
Organisation: The International Symposium on Open Collaboration
An: Nicolas Jullien <Nicolas.Jullien@telecom-bretagne.eu>


Conference Website and call for papers: http://opensym.org

Papers are due by March 15, 23h59 (any time on Earth).

Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018

Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on subjects 
related to open collaboration including:

- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research

Looking forward to seeing your paper's presentation in Paris

Nicolas Jullien, general chair of OpenSym 2018



About the Conference
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OpenSym is the only conference that brings together the different strands of 
open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create synergies and 
inspire new collaborations between people from computer science, information 
science, social science, humanities, and everyone interested in understanding 
open collaboration and how it is changing our society.

This year’s conference will be held in Paris, France on August 22-24, 2018.  A 
Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 21, 2018.

OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the 
conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like all 
prior editions.



Submission Information and Instructions
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Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on subjects 
related to open collaboration including:

- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research

Paper Presentation: OpenSym 2018 will be organized as a one track conference 
in order to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of this conference and 
to encourage discussion.

Submission Deadline: The research paper submission deadline is March 15th 
2018. Submitted papers should present integrative reviews or original reports 
of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design, 
development and/or deployment of novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. 
Research papers will be reviewed to meet rigorous academic standards of 
publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, 
innovation and clarity of presentation.

All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018

Paper Length: There is no minimum or maximum length for submitted papers. 
Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a paper 
relative to its length. Papers should report research thoroughly but 
succinctly: brevity is a virtue. A typical length of a “long research paper” 
is 10 pages (formerly the maximum length limit and the limit on OpenSym 
tracks), but may be shorter if the contribution can be described and supported 
in fewer pages—shorter, more focused papers (called “short research papers” 
previously) are encouraged and will be reviewed like any other paper. While we 
will review papers longer than 10 pages, the contribution must warrant the 
extra length. Reviewers will be instructed to reject papers whose length is 
incommensurate with the size of their contribution. Papers should be formatted 
in ACM SIGCHI paper format. Reviewing is not double-blind so manuscripts do 
not need to be anonymized.

Posters: As in previous years, OpenSym will also be hosting a poster session 
at the conference. To propose a poster, authors should submit an extended 
abstract (not more than 4 pages) describing the content of the poster which 
will be published in a non-archival companion proceedings to the conference. 
Posters should use the ACM SIGCHI templates for extended abstracts. An example 
of a poster abstract can be found here. Reviewing is not double-blind so 
abstracts do not need to be anonymized.

Paper Proceedings: OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM 
SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital 
library like all prior editions. OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the 
different research disciplines it draws on including disciplines with archival 
conference proceedings and disciplines where authors usually present at 
conferences and publish later. Authors, whose submitted papers have been 
accepted for presentation at the conference have a choice of:
having their paper become part of the official proceedings, archived in the 
ACM Digital Library, having their paper published in the conference website 
only, with no transfer of copyright from the authors, having no publication 
record at all but only the presentation at the conference.

Response from authors: For the second time at OpenSym, authors will be given 
the opportunity to write a response to their reviews before final decisions 
are made. This should be treated as an opportunity to correct any mistakes or 
misconceptions in the reviews as well as to propose minor changes that the 
authors can make during the two weeks between notification and the 
camera-ready deadline.



Important Dates
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- Submission deadline: March 15, 2018
- Reviews sent to authors: May 11, 2018
- Response to reviews from authors due: May 20, 2018
- Final decision notification: June 15, 2018
- Camera-ready papers due: June 22, 2018
- Papers available online: July 13, 2018



Conference Organization
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The general chairs of the conference are Nicolas Jullien and Olivier Berger, 
IMT, France. Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have at 
info@opensym.org.


-- 
Maître de Conférences (HDR) / Associate Professor.
https://nicolasjullien.wp.mines-telecom.fr/

Directeur de M@rsouin http://www.marsouin.org
Membre du LEGO http://labo-lego.fr

Responsable du M2 management innovation
parcours Mgt du SI et des données @ischool IMT Atlantique
https://innovationmanagement.wp.imt.fr/