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<div><span style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">The Future of Open Source: SIGOPEN Developmental Workshop at OSS2016</span></div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">May 30, 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">The open source landscape has changed dramatically since the scholarly community first began investigating open source in earnest in the early 2000¹s. Disruptive technological trends such as cloud
computing,Software-as-a-Service, Service Oriented Architectures, and public API¹s as a development platform, change how we understand software development, distribution, execution, modification and evolution. Likewise, the organizational context of open source
has shifted from its traditional “grassroots" origins to include large formal organizations/foundations, commercial sponsors and participants, and public and NGO patrons and advocates. As such, open source has spawned a wide variety of related phenomena including
the application of open source principles within and between organizations, the adoption of open source ethos in the design and development of hardware and devices, 3-D printable models, virtual objects, and other complex knowledge goods.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Building on the success of the SIGOPEN developmental workshops recently held at ECIS 2015 and ICIS 2015, the AIS Special Interest Group on Open Research and Practice (SIGOPEN) will host a workshop
at OSS 2016 <a href="http://oss2016.cs.tut.fi/" target="_blank">http://oss2016.cs.tut.fi</a> to facilitate the rigorous exploration of this changing open source landscape. The workshop will provide a unique and collegial environment for scholars to present
their work-in-progress, mature their ideas, meet other researchers exploring related areas, and learn about emerging research in a relaxed and supportive setting. The goal of the workshop is to help authors move their work forward towards publication in major
international journals.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">The workshop welcomes research across a wide range of open source related issues, including development processes, platforms, and tools; individual behaviors and motivations; social, cultural, and
organizational factors; <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>economic and business models; legal structures and governance; leadership and coordination. However, reflecting the themes noted above, the CFP will particularly highlight
the desirability of research that extends our understanding of:</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">- the impact of emerging computing paradigms and models on open source software development processes, platforms, licensing, and governance.</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">- the impact of corporate, non-profit, and public body participation in open source projects and communities on open source software development processes, platforms, licensing, and governance.</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">- the impact of open source on the peer-production of other knowledge goods (open hardware, the maker movement, open design and 3D printing, etc) and on the strategies and operations of organizations
(open business models).</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Authors will be expected to submit working papers (max 7 pages + cover page and references) using the OSS 2016 submission template
<a href="http://www.oss2016.org/templates" target="_blank">http://www.oss2016.org/templates</a>. </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Email submissions to <a href="mailto:jfeller@ucc.ie" target="_blank">jfeller@ucc.ie</a>.</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">These working papers will be then be archived (open access) to the SIGOPEN website <a href="http://sigopen.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">http://sigopen.org/</a> </div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">This one-day workshop will comprise full-group paper presentations with Q&A in the morning, and small-group developmental roundtables in the afternoon. Roundtables will be mentored and participants
will be expected to have read the other papers in their roundtable in order to contribute meaningfully to the development of all papers in the group. The emphasis will be on focused, pragmatic engagement to support researchers in solving the problems they
are presently facing with the work (e.g. theory development, data analysis, and the communication of</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">results). There will also be opportunities for broader discussion amongst the full group of workshop participants.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Key Dates:</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Submissions Due: EXTENDED TO Friday 8 APRIL 2016 (email to <a href="mailto:jfeller@ucc.ie" target="_blank">jfeller@ucc.ie</a>)</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Decisions on Submissions: Before 12 April 2016</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Early-bird Registration for Workshops: Friday, 15 April 2016</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Additional Feedback on Submissions: Before 29th April 2016</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Final Versions Due: Friday, 13 May 2016</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas,monospace; font-size:12px">Workshop Day: Monday, 30 May 2016</div>
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