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From: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@int-evry.fr> Date: January 23, 2006 9:07:27 AM EST To: freesw@conecta.it Subject: [Freesw] CFP WFS2006 - 7th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE - Porto Alegre (Brazil) Reply-To: mailing list dedicated to free software/libre software discussion <freesw@conecta.it>

Hi.

(as usual, my apologies for any cross-postings)

Please feel free to circulate this call for papers.

Hope to see you in Porto Alegre, to share enthusiasm for Software Livre in Brazil :)

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CFP WFS2006 - 7th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE - Porto Alegre (Brazil)

WFS2006 - 7th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE AS PART OF THE FREE SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL FORUM 2006 Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil) - April 19-22, 2006 Sponsored by Brazilian Computer Society CALL FOR PAPERS of INTERNATIONAL TRACK

Free software (aka Libre Software, or OpenSource Software), has gained tremendous momentum all over the world, and is recognised as one of the major trends of the software industry, as well as an example for creation and diffusion of all intellectual goods in a networked economy, drawing ne models for the Information Society.

Still businesses or organisations, governments or individual users need to clarify their views concerning adoption or participation to the development of Free Software.

Beyond anecdotal success or failure of some particular Free Software projects, which will attract the media attention, researchers are studying the complex mix of technical, economical and social factors that regulate laws of the Libre Software projects and communities.

The 7th International Workshop on Free Software (WFS2006), which will be co-located with the International Free Software Forum 2006, intends to present and discuss the developments and research activities related to libre software carried out in academia and industry. Three main tracks : National, International and Free Software in Universities, will provide the attendance with a good mix of foundational works and return on experience.

Authors are invited to submit papers describing finished or under development work related to relevant aspects of libre software. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Free software-based research; * Comparing and evaluating free software solutions against proprietary solutions; * Adaptation and expansion of free software; * Academic experimentations using free software; * Use of free software in education; * Emerging technologies supported by free software; * Operating system distributions; * Networks and distributed systems; * Free software on databases, imaging processing, computer graphics; * Free software for artificial intelligence; * Digital inclusion; * E-government and free software; * E-Commerce and free software; * Public digital services; * Regional integration, and globalization.

Accepted papers will be included in the WFS 2006 proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper should register to the event and be present at WFS2006 to present the work in one of the three .

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should be written in English and formatted following the Brazilian Computer Society style. Paper templates are available at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/templates

Papers are limited to 8 pages. Authors should submit their work registering the paper and uploading a PDF file through the electronic submission Web site at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=281

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due: February 20, 2006 Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2006 Camera-ready due: March 17, 2006

GENERAL CHAIR:

Adenauer Corrêa Yamin (UCPEL/UFPEL), Brazil

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:

Olivier Berger (GET/INT), France

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

being defined

Permanent address of this CFP : http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/www/?q=en/node/88

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P.S.: mirror of this CFP in my blog at http://www-inf.int-evry.fr/~olberger/weblog/?p=72 (including comments facility).

-- Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger@int-evry.fr> Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF INT Evry (http://www.int-evry.fr) OpenPGP-Id: 1024D/6B829EEC

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