Software engineering perspective
- OSS architecture, configuration and release management, environments.
- Testing and assuring OSS quality and security.
- Mining and analyzing OSS project repositories.
- Lessons from OSS for conventional development.
- OSS and standards.
Studies of OSS deployment
- Case studies of OSS deployment, migration models, success and failure.
- Role of OSS in the public sector (government, education, health etc) and 'secondary' software sector (automotive, telco, medical devices, etc.).
- OSS-compatible IT governance architectures.
- Open sourcing - offshore sourcing of development.
- OSS applications catalog (functionality, platforms, support providers, training needs).
Open Source Systems Conferences
- OSS2005: 1st International Conference on Open Source Software, Genoa, Italy, July 2005
- OSS2006: 2nd International Conference on Open Source Software, Como, Italy, June 2006
- OSS2007: 3rd International Conference on Open Source Software, Limerick, Ireland, 11-14 June 2007
- OSS2008: 4th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Milan, Italy, 7-10 September 2008 (within the 20th IFIP World Computer Conference)
- OSS2009: 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Skövde, Sweden, 3-6 June 2009
- OSS2010: 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems: South Bend, IN, 30 May-2 June 2010
- OSS2011: 7th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Salvador, BA, Brazil, 6-7 October 2011
- OSS2012: 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Hammamet, Tunisia, 10-13 September 2012
- OSS2013: 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Izola/Isola, Slovenia, 25-28 June 2013
- OSS2014: 10th International Conference on Open Source Systems: San Jose, Costa Rica, 6-9 May 2014
- OSS2015: 11th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Firenze, Italy, 16-17 May 2015 (within the ICSE2015 Conference)
- OSS2016: 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Gothenburg, Sweden, 30 May - 2 June 2016
