CSCW Workshop:The Future of Collaborative Software Development February 12, 2012 Full Details: http://research.microsoft.com/futurecsd Call for Participation This workshop brings together researchers who are interested in the evolution of software development organizations and the role of collaboration technology, such as crowdsourcing, social media, software hosting, and application marketplace services. This CSCW 2012 workshop will include brief presentations, moderated discussions, a poster session, and a forecasting exercise to inspire participants to come up with their next big research idea. The major themes of the workshop are 1. How can empirical research methods be adapted to study and evaluate radically decentralized software organizations, where communication occurs on public social media channels and no centralized software repositories are used? 2. What are the organizational aspects of decentralized software teams, and how do they differ from more traditional enterprise or open source teams (for example, participants’ roles, work practices, and performance incentives)? How do these teams form, establish processes, operate, and reflect on their work? 3. How do the organizational, functional, technical, and social aspects of decentralized software teams vary over the course of their projects and overall collaboration? 4. How do software development practices co-evolve with collaboration technologies? 5. Why are particular application domains (for example, socially-relevant projects, health, gaming, energy efficiency, citizen science, education) attracting the focus of decentralized software teams, and how do the teams’ development methodologies and tools enable them to successfully meet their goals? We invite interested participants to submit a 2 to 3 page position paper. The submission deadline is November 22. Please see the workshop website http://research.microsoft.com/futurecsd for all the details. Workshop Organizers: Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, Redmond James D. Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria Program Committee: Jan Bosch. Chalmers University of Technology Travis Breaux, Carnegie Mellon University Marcel Bruch, Technische Universitat Darmstadt Marcelo Cataldo, Bosch Corporate Research Daniela Damian, University of Victoria Cleidson De Souza, Universidade Federal Pará Kate Ehrlich, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Libby Hemphill, Illinois Institute of Technology James Howison, University of Texas Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari Christian Lescher, Siemens Corporate Technology Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University Ita Richardson, University of Limerick Anita Sarma, University of Nebraska Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine Christoph Treude, University of Victoria André Van Der Hoek, University of California, Irvine Patrick Wagstrom, IBM TJ Watson Research Center --- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://conway.isri.cmu.edu/~jdh/