19-24 September 2011 in Salvador, BA, Brazil

IFIP Working Group on Open Source Software - IFIP WG 2.13

The conference will consist of research papers presentations, workshops, tutorials, panels, and project demonstrations.
The major OSS2011 theme is Software Reliability. Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals on a variety of OSS topics, including but not limited to:

Software reliability of FLOSS
• Measuring software reliability
• Mining FLOSS repositories for software reliability
• FLOSS vs. proprietary software
• Qualitative analysis of software reliability
• Models of software reliability
• Estimating / Predicting software reliability
• Testing and inspecting FLOSS
• Tools for software reliability

FLOSS as innovation
• Adoption/ use / acceptance of FLOSS
• Dissemination / redistribution / licensing of FLOSS
• Open Science and Open Knowledge
• Adopting innovation in FLOSS projects

FLOSS practices and methods
• FLOSS and traditional / agile methods
• FLOSS and distributed development
• Knowledge and documentation management in FLOSS

FLOSS technologies
• FLOSS over the Internet
• Security of FLOSS
• Interoperability / portability / scalability of FLOSS
• Open Data Standards
• Reuse in FLOSS
• FLOSS for entertainment
• FLOSS for education
• FLOSS architecture and design

Economic / organizational / social issues on FLOSS
• FLOSS project communities, building and sustaining
• Economic analysis of FLOSS
• Cost models of FLOSS
• Business models of FLOSS
• Maturity models of FLOSS
• FLOSS in public sector
• FLOSS in education
• FLOSS IPR and licensing