The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced that it will sponsor the Doctoral Consortium on Open Source Systems research to be held on October 5, 2011, in Salvador Brazil. This consortium is co-located with the 7th International Conference on Open Source Systems (http://ossconf.org/) scheduled for October 6-7th, 2011. The NSF-funded fellowships will cover the travel and consortium and conference registration costs for eight U.S. doctoral students.

The goal of the doctoral consortium is to provide Ph.D students with an environment in which they can share and discuss their goals, methods and results of their research, and get advice and reactions from others before their dissertations are completed. Interested applicants are encouraged to visit http://ossconf.org/2011/doctoral-consortium for more information on how to apply.