Organizing an Open Source Workshop!!!

"Open Source, Open Ideas"
Hosted by Politechnic of Bari (Italy), May 29th 2007

A workshop entitled "Open Source, Open Ideas" will be held on Tuesday
May 29th at the Politecnico di Bari campus sponsored jointly by
Politecnico di Bari, OrgLab (University of Cassino), Syracuse
University and IESEG School of Management. The workshop aims at
bringing together researchers from social, legal, business, political,
and technical areas to debate current Open Source Software issues and
to build a collaboration network for future common initiatives. The
workshop activities will include presenting current free/libre open
source software research, sharing future research ideas, and social
events.

Tentative schedule
28 May
Welcome dinner

29th May
9.00-9.15 Welcome from Politecnico of Bari
9.15-9.45 FLOSS Research - State of the art
9.45-13.30 Current and future research - participant presentations
13.15-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.45 Current and future research - participant presentations
15.45-17.00 Discussion on the possibility to create a collaboration
network + discussion to access to EU projects

The meeting is free and open to all faculty as well as the broader OSS
community. More information on the workshop are available at
http://floss.syr.edu/conferences/2007OSSworkshop/

To register for the workshop, please email Yeliz Eseryel
(yeliz2002@gmail.com) with the subject line "Open Source Open Ideas".
Please mention which aspect of Open Source Software your research
focuses on.

To get more information the workshop and how to get to Bari, please
email Barbara Scozzi (bscozzi@poliba.it) with the subject line "Open
Source Open Ideas".

PLEASE PREREGISTER BY MAY 15, SO THAT WE CAN GET A HEADCOUNT FOR THE
EVENT. This will also allow you to receive updates on the workshop.

Best Regards

Francesco Bolici, OrgLab - University of Cassino, IT
Andrea Carugati, IESEG School of Management, FR
Kevin Crowston & Yeliz Eseryel, Syracuse University, USA
Barbara Scozzi, Politecnico di Bari, IT