Re: [pgeu-general] Conference "OSS 2.0 : Leveraging the Open Source community for business" - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy
From | Hans-Juergen Schoenig |
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Subject | Re: [pgeu-general] Conference "OSS 2.0 : Leveraging the Open Source community for business" |
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Msg-id | 483521D7.3000508@cybertec.at Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Conference "OSS 2.0 : Leveraging the Open Source community for business" ("Gabriele Bartolini" <gabriele.bartolini@gmail.com>) |
List | pgsql-advocacy |
hello gabriele, i would definitely like to participate. how are we gonna organize our community efforts here? is anybody else interested in giving a talk. i was thinking of talking about "Monetary advantages of sponsoring PostgreSQL" or something like that. many thanks, hans Gabriele Bartolini wrote: > I believe an Italian and European PostgreSQL community participation > would be interesting. If anyone of you is interested, please let me > know. I have posted this conference details to the ITPUG association > members, but - given that the conference is run in English - it is > open to the world and European community of PostgreSQL as well. > > Please let me know. > > Thanks, > Gabriele > > **** > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > OSS 2.0 : Leveraging the Open Source community for business > > Workshop at OSS 2008 Conference, co-located with IFIP WCC 2008 Milan > (Italy) > > http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/oss20 > > > Deadline for submission: 21st June 2008 > Notification of acceptance: 11th July 2008 Final submission due: 25th > July 2008 > Workshop: 10th September 2008 > > > SCOPE: > ------ > > Open Source software (OSS) is gaining momentum. The largest IT and > software companies all around the world are now investing in it: IBM > has recently released Eclipse under an OSS license, Sun Microsystems > has acquired MySQL and has released Solaris as OSS, Oracle has > acquired BerkelyDB. At the same time, more and more companies are > building their business according to the Open Source paradigm. Many > OSS projects are currently run and maintained by companies, even tough > indirectly. For example, more than 90% of OpenOffice code is developed > by professional software engineers employed by a pool of companies > that include Sun, IBM, Novell, Red Flag, Red Hat, and Google. Most of > the code of MySQL is developed by MySQL's employees. Recent research > has shown that even among managed and active projects hosted on > SourceForge more than 40% of the code is contributed by paid developers. > > Based on this empirical evidence, why should companies invest in OSS? > > The focus of contributions should be on the ways in which business can > be built around OSS, with a particular attention to the role of > communities. > Submissions are invited for theoretical and empirical research papers. > The official language of the workshop is English. > > The workshop is open to all researchers and members of the OSS community. > The Organizing Committee will select the participants through a double > blind review process. At least one author of each accepted submission > must attend the workshop and all workshop participants must pay the > workshop registration fee. > > > TOPICS: > ------- > > The following represents a non exhaustive list of topics: > > * OSS business models: > OSS strategies of software companies, sustainability of OSS-based > business models, hybridization between commercial and open software, > impact of OSS on firm performance. > > * Companies in OSS projects: > Companies' involvement in OSS projects: contributions and strategies, > role of paid developers and social networks, impact of companies' > involvement on software quality. > > * Communities: > Advantages of OSS communities for OSS-based business models, > communities as market platforms and source of feedback, managerial > strategies for leveraging OSS communities. > > * Innovation models: > Open innovation framework, factors favouring the emergence of OSS-like > innovation patterns, innovation policies tailored to software design, > OSS technology transfer issues. > > *OSS model and communities in other sectors: > Applicability of OSS-like models to other sectors (biotech, > multimedia, etc.), role played by communities in other sectors. > > Authors should submit papers (in .sxw, .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format) to > Eugenio Capra (eugenio.capra@polimi.it <mailto:eugenio.capra@polimi.it>). > Papers ahould be formatted in accordance with the main conference > templates, which can be found at: > http://oss2008.dti.unimi.it/index.php?id=authorKit.htm > > > WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: > ---------------- > Eugenio Capra, Politecnico di Milano (eugenio.capra@polimi.it > <mailto:eugenio.capra@polimi.it>) Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di > Milano (francala@elet.polimi.it <mailto:francala@elet.polimi.it>) > Cristina Rossi Lamastra, Politecnico di Milano > (cristina1.rossi@polimi.it <mailto:cristina1.rossi@polimi.it>) Anthony > I. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon West (tonyw@west.cmu.edu > <mailto:tonyw@west.cmu.edu>) > > > SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: > --------------------- > Robert J. Alexander, Executive IT Architect, IBM Italia, IT Luciano > Baresi, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano, IT Lorenzo > Benussi, Researcher, TOPIX and Universita' di Torino, IT Francesco > Bolici, Assistent Professor, Universita' di Cassino, IT Andrea > Bonaccorsi, Professor, Universita' di Pisa, IT Andrea Capiluppi, > Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln, UK Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO, > Funambol, US Carlo Daffara, CEO, Conecta srl, IT Jean Michel Dalle, > Professor, Marie Curie University, FR Jean Carlos De Martin, > Professor, Politecnico di Torino, IT Dario Lorenzi, Ph.D. Student, > Politecnico di Milano, IT Joachim Henkel, Professor, Technische > Universitat Munchen, D James Howison, Ph.d. Student, Syracuse > University, US Angelo Raffaele Meo, Professor, Politecnico di Torino, > IT Francesco Merlo, Ph.D. Candidate, Politecnico di Milano, IT Mattia > Monga, Assistant Professor, Universita' di Milano, IT Vincenzo > Morabito, Assistant Professor, Universita' L. Bocconi, IT Alberto > Onetti, Professor, Universita' dell'Insubria, IT Gregorio Robles, > Associate Professor, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, IT Francesco > Rullani, Researcher, Copenaghen Business School, DK Barbara Scozzi, > Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Bari, IT Walt Scacchi, Professor, > University of California, Irvine, US Alberto Sillitti, Assistant > Professor, Libera Universita' di Bolzano, IT Salvatore Torrisi, > Professor, Universita' di Bologna, IT Georg von Krogh, Professor, ETH > Zurich, CH > > -- Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH PostgreSQL Solutions and Support Gröhrmühlgasse 26, A-2700 Wiener Neustadt Tel: +43/1/205 10 35 / 340 www.postgresql-support.de, www.postgresql-support.com
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