-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Libre software as a field of study Datum: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:08:36 +0200 (CEST) Von: Stefan Koch stefan.koch@wu-wien.ac.at An: indi@wu-wien.ac.at, ai@wu-wien.ac.at, wi@wu-wien.ac.at

------------------------------------------- Call for contributions to an special issue of Upgrade Magazine on "Libre software as a field of study" -------------------------------------------

Upgrade, the flagship magazine of CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies) is publishing an special issue on libre (free, open source) software as a matter of study, scheduled to appear on July 2005.

The guest editors for this special issue, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Stefan Koch are looking for articles for it, in one or many of the following topics:

- Libre software engineering (software development, processes and methods, best practices)

- Empirical studies on libre software (dealing with products. processes or both)

- Libre software economics, and research on business models

- Software development with libre software

- Research on other issues related to libre software (such as legal, ethical or sociological issues)

All the topics should be dealt with in the context of a publication targeted to IT professionals, including enough introduction to explain the problems being researched, and extensive references to related work. Articles describing the state of the art in any of the specified topics (or in a part of them) are specially welcome. Works can present non-published research, or new focus on already published own works (in that case they should be substantially original, clearly reflect a new focus on the research). In any case the author(s) are requested to send articles not published elsewhere.

Articles for Upgrade are about 3,000 words long, but some variance is admitted. All submitted articles will be reviewed at least by one expert in the topic, and their comments will be made available to the main author along with the decision about publication.

Authors are encouraged (but not required) to send their work under a Creative Commons or similar license. If some specific licenses of the Creative Commons family are used, no transfer of copyright by the author(s) to Upgrade will be required .

Deadlines:

- May 15th: notifications of intention (700 words extended abstract) - May 17th: feedback from editors - May 25th: submission of whole articles (3,000 words) - June 5th: notification of acceptance - June 15th: submission of final versions

Upon receiving a notification of intention, the guest editors will inform the submitters about the interest of their proposed contribution for the special issue. Therefore, the more detail the notification includes, the better the guest editors will be able of providing feedback to the authors.

Both notifications of intention and submissions should be sent both tho the Upgrade chief editor and to the guest editors of this special issue (see addresses below)

Formats:

Extended abstract should be sent in PDF format. Articles should be sent both in PDF and in an editable format (LaTeX and DocBook/XML may be considered, RTF and OpenOffice.org formats are preferred)

Articles should include the following information:

- Short professional CV (6-10 lines) of all the authors, including their e-mail addresses. - Abstract (5-8 lines) - Keywords (4-7)

Addresses:

Upgrade chief editor: Rafael Calvo, rfcalvo (a) ati . es

Guest editors for this special issue: Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, jgb (a) gsyc.escet . urjc.es Stefan Koch, stefan.koch (a) wu-wien . ac.at

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About Upgrade:

Upgrade, http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/ is an online publication, which offers all its material freely available in the net. Upgrade is published online by CEPIS in English, and most of its contents are republished (either online or in paper) by some national organizations members of CEPIS, usually translated into other languages. Upgrade is targeted at European IT professionals.

About CEPIS:

CEPIS, http://www.cepis.org/ the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, and targeted mainly at European IT professionals.

About the term "libre software":

We use the term "libre software" to refer to any code that conforms either to the definition of "free software" (according to the Free Software Foundation) or "open source software" (according to the Open Source Initiative). The term, rooted in Romanic languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese or Italian, was proposed in the early 1990s to avoid the ambiguity of "free" in English, and is currently used in some contexts to refer to the intersection of "libre" and "open source" software.

About Creative Commons:

Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org is a group publishing a set of licenses aimed at exploring less restrictive rights for receivers of intangibles (such as, in our case, articles). Their licenses can be used completely free of charge and with no obligation to the Creative Commons group or any other third party. For this issue, the guest editors recommend the Attribution-NoDerivs, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ licenses, although other are of course accepted.

--------------------------------------- Stefan Koch University of Economics and BA Department of Information Business Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria Tel.: (+43-1) 31336/5206 e-Mail: stefan.koch@wu-wien.ac.at ---------------------------------------