TOSSAD 2006

[Ellen Reitmayr]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATIONS:

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TOSSAD 2006 - A Workshop on Governmental, Educational, Usability,
and Legal Issues towards Open Source Software Adoption (tOSSad) in an
enlarged Europe

Co-located with The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems
Como (Italy), June 10th 2006

http://www.tossad.org/tossad/events/tossad_2006

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PLEASE NOTE:

Accepted papers/reports/case analysis/demonstrations will be presented at
the workshop and will be published as tOSSad2006 Proceedings.


AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP:

The main objective of this tOSSad workshop at OSS 2006 meeting is to
integrate, and to discuss already formed methodologies, strategies,
skills and technologies in F/OSS domain in order to help governmental
bodies, educational institutions and SMEs to share research results,
establish synergies, build partnerships and innovate in an enlarged Europe.

The workshop will be organized around parallel and/or serial sub-tracks
covering themes that are listed below. The technical nature of the
workshop will consist of presentations of technical reports and/or
scientific papers; case analysis; demonstrations followed by interactive
discussions.

Although relatively focused studies from tOSSad project are planned to
compose a part of the workshop, primarily, contributions from other
related EU/non-EU projects, researchers, and practitioners are expected.

Submitted papers, reports, case analysis or proposal for demonstrations
will be collected by related conveners and will be reviewed by the
programme committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop
and  will be published as tOSSad2006 proceedings.

The workshop encourages submissions on all topics listed under following
sub-themes:

THEME 1- Legal, Administrative and Financial Weaknesses/Barriers, and
Possible Solutions

Convenor(s): Manon van Leeuwen & Bülent Özel
Focus: The sub-theme accepts technical papers, case analysis, and
proposals addressing following issues:
* What are the legal barriers?
* How to comply with IT Laws while developing, and procuring F/OSS
solutions within public bodies?
* What are the effects of software piracy on F/OSS adoptions and
acceptance?
* What kind of Administrative and Financial Weaknesses hinder F/OSS
adoptions?

THEME 2- F/OSS in National Programmes

Convenor(s):  Bülent Özel & Brian Restall
Focus: Authors are invited to submit reports or technical papers on
success stories, possible policies and strategies towards a wider
adoption of F/OSS technologies within public administrations, NGOs,
SMEs, and educational institutes.

THEME 3- F/OSS Usability
Convenor(s): Sandra Frings & Görkem Çetin
Focus: This subtheme is intended for practitioners, software developers,
HCI specialists and project managers who want to deploy user centered
design process of a distributed and/or F/OSS project. The sub-theme
encourages submissions on following topics:
* Continuous and sustainable usability in F/OSS projects
*Distributed and remote usability in F/OSS projects
*Differences between Internet-led or vendor-led usability
*Usability and F/OSS development process
*F/OSS usability tests and reports
*Out of box experience for F/OSS products
*Usable GUI design
*Empirical work related to F/OSS usability
*Opportunities for proactive and supportive users
*Localization, accessibility and internationalization
*Evaluation of usability
*Application scenarios and demos

THEME 4- F/OSS Curriculum Development and Best F/OSS Training and
Learning Methods
Convenor(s): Michele Marchesi & Graham Attwell
Focus: The sub-theme consists of two different tracks:
1.Open tOSSad Project F/OSS Curriculum Development Workpackage workshop
where invited talks will be delivered and results of tOSSad Workpackage
will be discussed.
2.Presentations of submitted and reviewed papers addressing following
issues: Case analysis and demonstrations on successful F/OSS training
and learning methodologies and systems. Possible frameworks while
developing F/OSS curricula for K12s, NGOs, youth empowerment centers,
university graduate and post graduate studies F/OSS e-learning
methodologies

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Workshop is targeted but not limited to the following audiance:
-F/OSS policy makers,
-F/OSS practitioners,
-F/OSS business entrepreneurs/proffesionals,
-F/OSS trainers and teachers,
-Researchers,
-F/OSS users.

IMPORTANT DATES:
14th April 2006        Submission of abstracts/papers
21st April 2006        Notification of acceptance
5th May 2006        Camera ready paper due
10th June 2006        Workshop in Como(Italy)


SUBMISSON:
The abstract (500-800 words) of the paper/report/demonstration must be
sent in acrobat (pdf) format to the following address:

  bulent at cs.bilgi.edu.tr

More information on submission of abstracts/papers:

  http://www.tossad.org/tossad/events/tossad_2006/submission

tOSSad:

tOSSad ( www.tOSSad.org ) is an EU FP6 project funded under IST-3. It
aims at improving the outcomes of the F/OSS communities throughout
Europe through supporting the coordination and networking of these
communities by means of state-of-the-art studies, national program
initiations, usability cases, curriculum development and implementation
of collaborative information portal and web based groupware. By
conducting these actions on an international European level, with
inclusion of the ACC and NMS countries the tOSSad project acts for a
general acceptance and coordinated boost of F/OSS development. The
project consortium consists of 19 partner institutes from 15 different
EU countries.
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FOSS-PDI is a joint initiative of Bridges.org (www.bridges.org); FOSSFA
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www.digitalopportunity.org); UNDP/APDIP (www.apdip.net); APDIP/IOSN
(www.iosn.net); UNESCO (www.unesco.org).


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Ellen Reitmayr
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org
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