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Subject: CFP: 2nd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:14:14 -0000 From: "Feller, Joe" JFeller@AFIS.UCC.IE To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

CALL FOR PAPERS

Meeting Challenges and Surviving Success: The 2nd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2002

The 2nd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering is an official event (http://www.icse-conferences.org/2002/info/workshops.html) of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2002), which will be held in Orlando, FL, USA from May 19-25, 2002.

The workshop is currently scheduled for Saturday May 25, and is a one-day event. The workshop is limited to 35 participants.

In May 2001, "Making Sense of the Bazaar: The 1st Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering" was held at the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2001) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Since then, interest in Open Source Software (OSS) has continued to gain momentum, both in the practitioner and research communities. The goal of this year's workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss both the short and long term sustainability of OSS. Specifically, the workshop will seek to address the quality and maintainability of OSS products and tools, the replicability and portability of the OSS software engineering process and tool kit, the stability and sustainability of OSS developer and user communities, and the viability and profitability of OSS business models.

The discussion will be organized around four key themes:

1. The quality and maintainability of OSS products. This includes, but is not limited to, the reliability, availability, security, and usability of OSS products and tools; the architectural characteristics of OSS products and tools; and the current and future roles played by OSS products and tools in different application spaces. Of particular interest is the phenomenon of "boot-strapping", i.e., the role of OSS software (both existing and potential) in the development of OSS software.

2. The replicability and portability of the OSS software engineering process and tool kit. This includes, but is not limited to, dialogue and knowledge transfer between OSS and traditional software engineering approaches and tool use; comparisons between OSS and other methods of software engineering; and the extent to which traditional software developers are able to effectively adopt OSS tools and techniques.

3. The stability and sustainability of OSS developer and user communities. This includes, but is not limited to, the community-based management of knowledge, reputation and trust; mechanisms and practices for effective collaboration; and comparisons between company-led (or company-enabled) OSS development teams and emergent, volunteer communities.

4. The viability and profitability of OSS business models. This includes, but is not limited to, the sustainability of pure-play OSS business models; the emergence of hybrid proprietary-OSS business models; and the impact of intellectual property law on OSS.

Position Papers: All participants are strongly encouraged to submit a position paper of no more than 3 pages, addressing one or more of the workshop themes described above, or related issues. Position Papers should follow the guidelines at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Position papers should be submitted by March 15, 2002 using one of the following formats: plain text, rich text, html, or MS-Word (yes, we appreciate the irony). Send position papers and inquiries to Joseph Feller at jfeller@afis.ucc.ie.

Position papers will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee (see below) and accepted papers will be published in the official workshop proceedings and on the workshop website. Four position papers will be selected to be delivered as mini-presentations on the day of the workshop.

Organizing Committee: Joseph Feller, University College Cork, Ireland (Chair) Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland Frank Hecker, CollabNet, Inc., USA Scott A. Hissam, Software Engineering Institute, USA Karim Lakhani, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA André van der Hoek, University of California - Irvine, USA.

________________________ Joseph Feller jfeller@afis.ucc.ie http://opensource.ucc.ie http://afis.ucc.ie/jfeller

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