Panel Session A: Open Source and E-Government
Organizer: Jay Kesan
This panel will focus on understanding the challenges, benefits, opportunities, and risks encountered by govern ment departments, agencies, and public institutions that have chosen to deploy open source software to meet their information technology needs and electronic government policy objectives. Talks will present case studies, analyses of government efforts and experiences, academic studies, internal government evaluations and results from govt. audits. Presenters will include government officials, software industry associations, software vendors, and academics.
Panelists: Andrea Campelo, Director, Tecno Ativa, Prof. Charles Schweik from the Univ. of Massachusetts and Jay Kesan
Presentation: October 6, 16:00 - 17:00
Panel Session B: Free/Libre/Open Source Software Development in Education
Organizers: Fabio Kon, Christina Chavez, Paulo Meirelles, Antonio Terceiro
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) presents a strategy for developing software products that is substantially different from what is usually taught in Software Engineering (SE) courses.This panel aims to discuss the benefits of using FLOSS in SE Education and possibilities for educating new and old generations about FLOSS.
Moderator: Prof. Fabio Kon (IME-USP, Brazil)
Panelists: Prof. Chirstina Chaves (UFBA, Brazil), Prof. Greg Madey (U. Notre Dame, USA), Prof. Björn Lundell (U. Skövde, Norway)
Download slides: OSS_Education.odp, Panel-FLOSSinSE.pdf
Presentation: October 6, 17:00 - 18:00
Panel Session C: Towards a Science of Open Source System
Organizers: Greg Madey & Walt Scacchi
The purpose of this panel will be to disseminate the findings from the related FOSS2010 workshop, a CCC‐sponsored exploratory workshop held in Irvine, California in February, 2010, and documented in a final report of November 2010. At the OSS conference we will discuss what was learned at the FOSS workshop, the recommendations in the workshop’s final report, and to discuss and solicit follow on activities and plans.
Presentation: October 6, 16:00 - 17:00
Panel Session D: Management and Governance of Open Practices: Opportunities and Experiences beyond Open Source Software
Organizers: Jan Ljungberg, Björn Lundell, Tetsuo Noda, Walt Scacchi, and Ann Séror.
With a broader adoption of Open Source Software and its associated development practices, a number of individuals and organisations have experienced changes in the conductions for their daily life. In a number of different domains, many organisations have consequently adapted their traditional way-of-working as certain "open" and distributed practices have been adopted. There are many socio-technical aspects to such change, and it remains to be seen how such changes will affect conditions for working-life. The extent to which such open and distributed work practices may be established in different usage scenarios, and how such changes affect different roles, competences, pre-conditions for work tasks are issues that need further consideration. This panel will comment on the nature and characteristics of open practices, and how it relates to Open Source. Specifically, we will comment on how open practices are (and can be) used in different domains, and what effects such use may imply for different stakeholder groups, how to organise work, and society more broadly. The panellists will draw from experiences in different usage contexts, and comment on opportunities and challenges for adoption of open practices. Specifically, the panel seeks to identify critical issues for open practices that may enable or hinder its introduction in different usage scenarios. An overarching goal for the panel is to identify, from a number of different perspectives, which Open Source practices may (or may not) be successfully transferred to different domains, including such domains as: medical, health, media, games, education, manufacturing, agriculture, environment. The discussion will include consideration of the following issues: What characterises applications of open practices? What challenges follow from an introduction of open practices in terms of leadership and organisation of work? Which opportunities and risks are associated with open practices for different stakeholders that are involved?
Presentation: October 6, 17:00 - 18:00
Panel Chairs:
- Jay Kesan (kesanATlaw.illinois.edu)
- John Noll (jhnollATgmail.com)
- Marcos Sfair Sunyé (sunyeATc3sl.ufpr.br)
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Call for Proposal
Important Dates:
21 August 2011
Submission of panel proposals
5 September 2011
Panel proposals acceptance
5 -8 October 2011
Panel will be during the Main Conference