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Monday, September 10
07:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:30 Session DC1: Doctoral Consortium Session BB1: Business networking
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session DC2: Doctoral Consortium Session BB2: Business networking
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Session DC3: Doctoral Consortium Special Session FOSS4D: Edited Book
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Session DC4: Doctoral Consortium Panel: OSS business
17:00 - 18:00 Keynote 1: Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation
19:00 - Reception / Posters

Tuesday, September 11
07:30 - 08:30 Women@OSS breakfast
08:30 - 09:30 Welcome + Opening
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote 2: Simon Phipps, Open Source Initiative
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote 3: Michael Widenius, Monty Program Ab
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Session 1A (Full): Collaboration and forks in OSS projects Session 1B (Short): Community issues

Session 2B (Short): Product development
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 2A (Full): Community issues Session 3B (Short): OSS quality
17:00 - 17:10 Break to change rooms
17:10 - 18:10 Session 3A (Full): Open education and peer-production models Session 4B (Short): Industrial experiences
19:00 - Conference banquet

Wednesday, September 12
07:30 - 08:30 Nordic@OSS breakfast
08:30 - 09:30 Keynote 4: Mark Gayler, Microsoft Corporation
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote 5: Mikko Kurunsaari, Gurux Ltd
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Session 4A (Full): Integration and architecture Session 5B (Short): OSS in different domains

Session TDB1: Tool demonstration
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Session 5A (Full): Business ecosystems Session 6B (Short): Development practices
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 Session 6A (Full): Adoption and evolution of OSS Session 7B (Short): Business ecosystems

Session TDB2: Tool demonstration
16:30 - 16:45 Break to change rooms
16:45 - 18:15 IFIP WG 2.13 Business Meeting

Thursday, September 13
08:00 - 08:30 Registration for workshops
08:30 - 09:30 Keynote 6: Carol Smith, Google
09:30 - 10:30 Workshop FLOSSEdu Workshop mFOSS
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Workshop FLOSSEdu Workshop mFOSS
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Workshop FLOSSEdu Workshop mFOSS



Detailed Conference Program


Monday, September 10
07:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:30 Session DC1: Doctoral Consortium
09:00 - 10:30 Session BB1: Business networking
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session DC2: Doctoral Consortium
11:00 - 12:30 Session BB2: Business networking
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Session DC3: Doctoral Consortium
14:00 - 15:30 Special Session FOSS4D: Edited Book
S. K. Sowe, G. Parayil, and A. Sunami (Eds). Free and Open Source Software and Technology for Sustainable Development. UNU-Press (Summer, 2012).

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15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Session DC4: Doctoral Consortium
16:00 - 17:00 Panel: OSS business
Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Tomas Gustavsson, CTO of PrimeKey Solutions, Sweden
Ilkka Lehtinen, Executive Director of Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions, Finland
Abdrahman Elkafil, CEO of NEXTMA, Morocco

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17:00 - 18:00 Keynote 1
The Sustainability of an Independent Free Software Project
Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation
Chair: Imed Hammouda
19:00 - Reception / Posters
Open Source Software in Research and Development (Guidelines for Postgraduate Students)
Michael Adeyeye and Oluyomi Kabiawu

Development Style of Open Source and Economies of Connection
Keisuke Tanihana and Tetsuo Noda

FLOSS Survey 2013?: A Proposal for Comprehensive Survey on FLOSS developers
Masayuki Hatta

Open Source Software Project Registration Strategies
Alexander Lokhman

Using the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling as a Robust, Fully Functional, Actively Maintained, Open Source C++ Parser
Danila Piatov, Andrea Janes, Alberto Sillitti and Giancarlo Succi


Tuesday, September 11
07:30 - 08:30 Women@OSS breakfast
Chair: Terhi Kilamo
08:30 - 09:30 Welcome + Opening
Tommi Mikkonen, general co-chair
Walt Scacchi, general co-chair
Imed Hammouda, program co-chair
Björn Lundell, program co-chair
Mongi Marzouk, Minister of Information and Communication Technologies of Tunisia
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote 2
What's driving Open Source?
Simon Phipps, Open Source Initiative
Chair: Tommi Mikkonen
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote 3
The MySQL and MariaDB Story
Monty - Michael Widenius, Monty Program Ab
Chair: Björn Lundell
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Session 1A (Full): Collaboration and forks in OSS projects
Chair: Gregory Madey

A Comprehensive Study of Software Forks: Dates, Reasons and Outcomes
Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

A Model of Open Source Developer Foundations
Dirk Riehle and Sebastian Berschneider

Long-term sustainability of Open Source software communities beyond a fork: a case study of LibreOffice
Jonas Gamalielsson and Björn Lundell

13:30 - 14:30 Session 1B (Short): Community issues
Chair: Juho Lindman

Free and Open Source Software Adoption in Emerging Markets: An Empirical Study in the Education Sector
Gangadharan G.R. and Martin Butler

Open-source technologies realizing social networks: a multiple descriptive case-study
Jose Teixeira

A Qualitative Method for Mining Open Source Software Repositories
John Noll, Sarah Beecham and Dominik Seichter

14:30 - 15:00 Session 2B (Short): Product development
Chair: Juho Lindman

Hybrid Business Models in Software Product Industry: Patterns and Challenges
Swanand Deodhar, Kulbhushan Saxena and Mikko Ruohonen

Two Modes of Product Development: Head-oriented vs. Release-oriented
Masayuki Hatta

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 2A (Full): Community issues
Chair: Dirk Riehle

Step-by-Step Strategies and Case Studies for Embedded Software Companies to Adapt to the FOSS Ecosystem
Suhyun Kim, Jaehyun Yoo and Myunghwa Lee

Citizen Engineering: Evolving OSS Practices to Engineering Design and Analysis
Zhi Zhai, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Ahsan Kareem, David Hachen and Gregory Madey

Gender Differences in Early Free and Open-source Software Joining Process
Victor Kuechler, Claire Gilbertson and Carlos Jensen

15:30 - 17:00 Session 3B (Short): OSS quality
Chair: Jonas Gamalielsson

The impact of formal QA practices on OSS communities – The case of Mozilla
Adina Barham

Do more experienced developers introduce less bugs?
Daniel Izquierdo-Cortazar, Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

Perspectives on Code Forking and Sustainability in Open Source Software
Linus Nyman, Tommi Mikkonen, Juho Lindman and Martin Fougère

Open Source Prediction Methods: a systematic literature review
M.M. Mahbubul Syeed, Terhi Kilamo, Imed Hammouda and Tarja Systa

17:00 - 17:10 Break to change rooms
17:10 - 18:10 Session 3A (Full): Open education and peer-production models
Chair: Gregorio Robles

Emerging hackerspaces – Peer-production generation
Jarkko Moilanen

Exploring the Barriers and Enablers to the Use of Open Educational Resources by University Academics in Africa
Tanya Percy and Jean-Paul Van Belle
17:10 - 18:10 Session 4B (Short): Industrial experiences
Chair: Klaas-jan Stol

OSS in 2012: a long-term sustainable alternative for corporate IT
Didier Durand, Jean-Luc Vuattoux and Pierre-Jean Ditscheid

Discussion on the Problems to be Solved toward the Migration to OSS Productivity Software in the Business Enterprises
Jun Iio and Tomotaka Ogawa

How can Open Standards be effectively implemented in Open Source? Challenges and the ORIOS project
Björn Lundell, Admir Abdurahmanovic, Stefan Andersson, Erik Bergström, Jonas Feist, Jonas Gamalielsson, Tomas Gustavsson, Roger Kahlbom and Konstantin Papaxanthis

Future Smart Metering runs on Open Source – Challenges and the GuruxAMI project
Mikko Kurunsaari

19:00 - Conference banquet


Wednesday, September 12
07:30 - 08:30 Nordic@OSS breakfast
Chair: Björn Lundell
08:30 - 09:30 Keynote 4
Microsoft, Open Source and the Cloud
Mark Gayler, Microsoft Corporation
Chair: Imed Hammouda
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote 5
Gurux - the Open Source Experience
Mikko Kurunsaari, Gurux Ltd
Chair: Tommi Mikkonen
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Session 4A (Full): Integration and architecture
Chair: Giancarlo Succi

OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective
Claudia Ayala, Daniela S. Cruzes, Anh Duc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi, Xavier Franch, Martin Höst and Muhammad Ali Babar

Designing Secure Systems Based on Open Architectures with Open Source and Closed Source Components
Walt Scacchi and Thomas Alspaugh

11:00 - 11:40 Session 5B (Short): OSS in different domains
Chair: Tommi Mikkonen

From Open Source Software to Open Source Hardware
Robert Viseur

Open Source, Open Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights
Terhi Kilamo, Imed Hammouda, Ville Kairamo, Petri Räsänen and Jukka Saarinen

11:40 - 12:00 Session TDB1: Tool demonstration
Chair: Tommi Mikkonen

OSSLI: Architecture Level Management of Open Source Software Legality Concerns
Alexander Lokhman, Antti Luoto, Salum Abdul-Rahman and Imed Hammouda

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Session 5A (Full): Business ecosystems
Chair: John Noll

Using Multiple Case Studies to Analyse Open Source Software Business Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sulayman K. Sowe and Maurice McNaughton

Exploring the Role of Commercial Stakeholders in Open Source Software Evolution
Andrea Capiluppi, Klaas-Jan Stol and Cornelia Boldyreff

Exploring the role of outside organizations in Free / Open Source Software projects
Darren Forrest, Carlos Jensen, Nitin Mohan and Jennifer Davidson

13:30 - 15:00 Session 6B (Short): Development practices
Chair: Imed Hammouda

Open Source Adoption in South Africa: Validating the OSS-TOE Model through a Case Study
Jean-Paul Van Belle and Mark Reed

Forking the commons: Developmental tensions and evolutionary patterns in open source software
Mehmet Gencer and Bülent Özel

A Novel Application of Open Source Technologies to Measure Agile Software Development Process
Luis Corral, Andrea Janes, Juri Strumpflohner and Jelena Vlasenko

A Linguistic Analysis on how Contributors solve Software Problems in a Distributed Context
Hela Masmoudi and Imed Boughzala

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 Session 6A (Full): Adoption and evolution of OSS
Chair: Tony Wasserman

Two evolution indicators for FOSS projects
Etiel Petrinja and Giancarlo Succi

Open Source Migration in Greek Public Sector: A feasibility study
Androklis Mavridis, Dimitrios Fotakidis and Ioannis Stamelos
15:30 - 16:10 Session 7B (Short): Business ecosystems
Chair: Björn Lundell

A study on OSS Marketing and Communication Strategies
Vieri Del Bianco, Luigi Lavazza, Valentina Lenarduzzi, Sandro Morasca, Davide Taibi and Davide Tosi

The Effect of Open Source Licensing on the Evolution of Business Strategy
Tetsuo Noda, Terutaka Tansho and Shane Coughlan

16:10 - 16:30 Session TDB2: Tool demonstration
Chair: Björn Lundell

Binoculars: Comprehending Open Source Projects through Graphs
M.M. Mahbubul Syeed

16:30 - 16:45 Break to change rooms
16:45-18:15 IFIP WG 2.13 Business Meeting
Chair: Giancarlo Succi

Presentation of the following conference

18:15 Close of Main Conference


Thursday, September 13
08:00 - 08:30 Registration for workshops
08:30 - 09:30 Keynote 6
Google Summer of Code, Open Source, and Education
Carol Smith, Google
Chair: Björn Lundell
09:00 - 10:30 Workshop FLOSSEdu
09:00 - 10:30 Workshop mFOSS
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Workshop FLOSSEdu
11:00 - 12:30 Workshop mFOSS
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Workshop FLOSSEdu
14:00 - 15:30 Workshop mFOSS