 Goals
The commercial use of open
source is hindered by many factors. These include a lack of
integration with traditional requirements-driven product
development approaches, licensing issues, a clash with
existing corporate culture, and the perception that in order
to benefit from open source you need to open your source to
the outside world. The goal of this workshop is to bring
together researchers and practioners with experience in open
source adoption and value creation from open source, and to
document the best practices. The workshop is co-located with
the Montreal Conference on
e-Technologies (MCeTech), and will take place on Jan 23,
2008.
Topics
The workshop continues a
central theme of the OOPSLA 2007 Workshop on
Integration of Open Source Components into Large Software
Systems, the identification of best practices for open
source. Specifically, we are looking for contributions on the
following challenges around the commercial use of open source
systems (OSS) and an open source approach:
- Product development
front-end: OSSs often start with a specific user need.
How can customer requirements be collected more
systematically in an open source project?
- Licensing: Licenses are a
powerful tool for business strategy, but how do you ensure that
your software properly adheres to the licensing terms of
open source you build on?
- Open source adoption: Open
source development practices often clash with existing
corporate culture. How do we create an environment
receptive to the adoption of open source?
- Internal use of open source
development practices: What lessons from open source
projects can we apply to the organization of internal
projects?
Participation
Interested participants are requested to submit a short
position paper (4 pages, IEEE conference proceedings format) to
weiss@sce.carleton.ca and bailetti@sce.carleton.ca. Letters
of interest by people who want to participate in the
discussions, but do not have a position paper, are also
welcome.
The program committee will review submissions and select
the position papers to be accepted based on their relevance,
soundness and novelty. Authors of accepted papers are
expected to attend the workshop. In order to maximize the
time for discussion and collaboration among the participants
(breakout sessions, final discussion), the presentations
themselves will be short. Participants are expected to have
read the position papers in advance.
Accepted papers and up-to-date details on the organization
of the workshop will be posted on the workshop web site. We
also plan to summarize the workshop results for a journal.
Important Dates
- Submission of papers: Wed,
Dec 19, 20
- Notification of acceptance:
Mon, Jan 7, 2008
- Final version due: Fri,
January 18, 2008
Organizing Committee
- Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
- Tony Bailetti, Carleton University, Canada
Program Committee
- Vijay Gurbani, Bell Laboratories, USA
- Steven Muegge, Carleton University, Canada
- Dwight Deugo, Carleton University, Canada
- G.R. Gangadharan, University of Trento, Italy
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