The program for OpenSym 2019 is now available, please see:
https://opensym.org/os2019/program/
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Financial support for PhD students
Thanks to the generous support from the TOTO project (University College Cork, Ireland) which is funded by the Lewis Charitable Foundation (USA), we have the pleasure to offer PhD students that have registered for participation in the main OpenSym 2019 event, and that also qualify to participate in the Doctoral Symposium, the opportunity to apply for financial support to cover the registration cost (900 SEK) for the Doctoral Symposium.
For details, see:
https://opensym.org/os2019/doctoral-consortium-at-opensym/
Bruce Perens gives keynote on Open Source in Space @ OpenSym 2019
Bruce Perens gives keynote on Open Source in Space @ OpenSym 2019, see Keynotes for details.
Deadline for submission is approaching, but you can still submit your papers (see Call for Papers).
Announcing our second keynote speaker: Andrew Katz
We are very excited to announce Andrew Katz as a keynote speaker at OpenSym 2019!
For further details, see Keynotes.
Submission site is open
The submission site for OpenSym 2019 is now open.
All submissions are done via the EasyChair platform:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2019
Announcing our first keynote speaker: Bruce Perens
We are extremely excited to announce Bruce Perens as a keynote speaker at OpenSym 2019!
For further details, see Keynotes.
OpenSym 2019 – Call for Papers
OpenSym 2018 is over, see you in Skövde for OpenSym 2019
We’d like to thank all the participants of OpenSym that joined us in Paris for this 2018 edition!
We are looking forward to seeing you all next August in Skövde (Sweden) for OpenSym 2019, the 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration.
You can find all the presented paper in the proceedings page, and some recordings in the keynote speeches page.
OpenSym 2018, Paris, August 22-24
OpenSym 2018, the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, will take place in Paris (, France on
August 22-24, 2018
The program chair for this year is Matt Germonprez, Mutual of Omaha Associate Professor
Information Systems College of Information Science & Technology, University of Nebraska Omaha.
The registration page is here: http://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/opensym/
The Papers and their authors are here: http://www.opensym.org/os2018/proceedings2018/
We will be pleased to welcome, as keynote speakers,
- Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Associate Dean for Research, Syracuse University School of Information Studies,
- , founder and CEO of XWiki, recognized in the list of 100 notable French developers by Tariq Krim, in his report regarding the French software developer talents to The (former) French Minister in charge of the digital society, Fleur Pellerin,
- Aaron Halfaker (Wikipedia Foundation) and Stuart Geiger (UC Berkeley), for a discussion about qualitative and quantitative studies and Wikipedia.
We are looking for research submissions as well as industry and community submissions on topics relevant to
- IT-driven open innovation,
- open data,
- open education,
- open access and open science,
- collaborative “citizen” science,
- open law,
In addition to:
- free/libre/open source software and inner source,
- wikis and open collaboration, and Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.
Research papers.
The research paper submission deadline is:
March 15th, 2018
Submitted papers should present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design, development and/or deployment of novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation.
The program chair for this year is Matt Germonprez, Mutual of Omaha Associate Professor
Information Systems College of Information Science & Technology, University of Nebraska Omaha.
The call for papers for the doctoral symposium can be found at our website.
All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
Doctoral Symposium Call for Submissions
OpenSym seeks to explore the synergies between all strands of open collaboration research. Thus, we will have a doctoral symposium, in which Ph.D. students from different disciplines can present their work and receive feedback from senior faculty and their peers.
The doctoral symposium is lead by Björn Lundell, University of Skövde.
The call for papers for the doctoral symposium can be found at our website. Submission deadline is April 15th, 2018.
Industry and Community Track Call for Submissions
OpenSym is also seeking submissions for experience reports (long and short), tutorials, workshops, panels, industry and community posters, and demos. Such work accepted for presentation or performance at the conference is considered part of the community track. It will be put into the proceedings in a community track section; authors can opt-out of the publication, as with research papers.
The industry and community track is lead by Benjamin Jean (Inno 3) and Olivier Berger (IMT-Telecom Sud Paris)
The call for submissions to the community track can be found at our website. The submission deadline is April 22nd, 2018.
The OpenSym Conference Experience
OpenSym 2018 will be held in Paris on August 22-24, 2018. Research and community presentations and performances will be accompanied by keynotes, invited speakers, and a social program in one of the most vibrant cities on this planet.
The open space track is a key ingredient of the event that distinguishes OpenSym from other conferences. It is an integral part of the program that makes it easy to talk to other researchers and practitioners and to stretch your imagination and conversations beyond the limits of your own subdiscipline, exposing you to the full breadth of open collaboration research. The open space track is entirely participant-organized, is open for everyone, and requires no submission or review.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Paris!
Doctoral Symposium at OpenSym
For whom is this?
- You are working towards a PhD in one of OpenSym’s topic areas: free/libre/open source software, open data, IT-driven open innovation, open collaboration, or wikis;
- you have been working on this for at least a few months; you have at least a (perhaps preliminary) research question and some ideas on methods and feasibility;
- you will have to work on this for at least another few months; there is still some flexibility in the outcome.
What is this?
The doctoral symposium is an opportunity to get feedback on your ideas and/or work-so-far from experts and doctoral candidates within and outside your own discipline.
How does it work?
- You write a short exposé on your work as described on the submission types page.
- You submit it (as PDF) to Easychair on or before 2018-04-15, AoE.
- You will be notified of acceptance or rejection on 2016-05-27
(we do not expect the doctoral symposium to be very selective; we expect to reject primarily submissions that are off-topic or have too little content to allow helpful discussion). - If accepted, you should submit a final version of your submission until 2016-06-03, again via Easychair.
- If accepted, you come and present your topic and work
(details on this will follow; do not forget that we are not topic specialists, so make sure you explain such that an interdisciplinary audience can follow). - We all discuss your topic and work.
- You leave with plenty of good new ideas how to improve your work.
When and where?
The symposium takes place on Tuesday, August 21, 2018 (that is, the day before OpenSym proper will begin) at
Télécom Paris,
The format of each slot is: 20 minutes presentation, 20 minutes discussion of this topic (including specific methods), 20 minutes discussion beyond this topic (including methods in general).
A projector (VGA) will be available. Please bring your own laptop.
Doctoral symposium program committee
To be announced