AIMS

To enable a diverse community of researchers and practitioners to rigorously investigate the technology, work practices, development processes, community dynamics within free, libre and open source software (OSS) systems, complementing appropriately other IFIP Working Groups where OSS is increasingly relevant.

SCOPE

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)

Social science perspective

• Diversity and international participation in OSS projects
• Learning, knowledge sharing, collaboration, control or conflict in OSS projects
• Dynamics of OSS project communities — building and sustaining

External perspectives & influences

• Diffusion and adoption of OSS innovations
• Economic analysis of OSS - business and migration models
• OSS and alternative intellectual property regimes
• Stimulation of OSS development in vertical domains
• OSS Education

MAILING LIST

The working group has a mailing list used to announce IFIP WG 2.13 and related events. To subscribe to the list, send a message with the contents "SUB IFIPWG213" to ude.rys.vrestsil|vrestsil#ude.rys.vrestsil|vrestsil. To post a message, send to ude.rys.vrestsil|312gwpifi#ude.rys.vrestsil|312gwpifi. Note: you must be a member of the list to post.

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS

Upcoming conferences

• OSS2010: 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems: South Bend, IN, 30 May-2 June 2010.

Past conferences

• OSS2009: 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Skövde, Sweden, 3-6 June 2009.
• OSS2008: 4th International Conference on Open Source Systems: Milan, Italy, 7-10 September 2008 (coinciding with the 20th IFIP World Computer Conference). Proceedings from this conference are available for a limited time through the Springer Computer Science Reading Room, http://www.springer.com/computer/reading+room
• OSS2007: 3rd International Conference on Open Source Software, Limerick, Ireland, 11-14 Jun 2007
• OSS2006: 2nd International Conference on Open Source Software, Como, Italy, June 2006
• OSS2005: 1st International Conference on Open Source Software, Genoa, Italy, July 2005
• WOSSE Workshop Series on Open Source Software Engineering at the ICSE - International Conference on Software Engineering (details at http://opensource.ucc.ie)

You may also be interested in the recent HICSS minitracks on Open Source, such as the 2009 mini-track on Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents and Open Communities. The papers are available from the HICSS IEEE Digital Library.

OFFICERS

• General Chair: Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
• Vice Chair: Walt Scacchi, Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Vice Chair: Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
• Secretary: Scott Hissam, Software Engineering Institute, USA
• Secretary: Pär J. Ågerfalk, Uppsala University, Sweden

MEMBERSHIP (as of 20 June 2006)