Workshop on Open Source and Open Content (WOSOC)

WOSOC 2008
http://www.wosoc- conference. org

The Workshop on Open Source and Open Content (WOSOC) will be held from
30th of November till the 3rd of December 2008. The venue is Bali
Dynasty Hotel, Denpasar - Bali, Indonesia. The theme for the WOSOC is
"Making the Open Source and Open Content work for people". It is
expected to attract international and region participants and will
bring together participants representative of government, businesses,
civil society organizations and academics.

The WOSOC 2008 will investigate several questions with respect to the
use and development of Open Source and Open Content in various
countries particularly in developing countries. Exploring these
questions is crucial for the capacity building, capability formation,
competency building and knowledge creation in ensuring a sustainable
development model. Practical examples of the possibilities and
consequences of open source adoption are taken from industrialized
countries and highlighting initiatives in developing countries.

Many developing countries identify that information and communication
technologies (ICT) offer significant opportunities to address current
demands and repositioning for a better future. Unfortunately,
developing countries always face the high cost of software license,
making it the principal reason for unauthorized copying. Furthermore,
the proprietary and closed source software sometimes makes developing
countries unable to afford customization in order to fulfill the local
needs. Open Source Software (OSS) enables developing countries to
solve these problems and adapt software to meet local needs without
licensing problem.

WOSOC 2008 introduces two main tracks :

* Open Source Track
* Open Content Track
Track 1. Open Source

The availability of OSS may be critical to technology trajectories in
ICT. OSS has the potential to help democratization and help find
solutions to the most pressing problems faced by developing countries.
Due to the lower labor cost in developing countries, cost of
re-training users and hiring skilled people to migrate and run OSS
based systems is not as high as it is i n developed countries. More
importantly, this training cost is contributing to the local economy
rather than paying expensive software license fees.

Government and public sector organizations have initiated the use of
OSS as a key part of their policy in information technol ogy. It is
motivated by the reduction in cost of IT investments, as well as
independence of development, a drive for security and autonomy, and a
means to address intellectual property rights enforcement. Some
governments already employ software procurement policies, which
require the use of OSS.

In implementing information systems, government and public
organizations have to consider many factors including flexibility,
features, scalability, cost, and security. Information systems that
are used to capture, create, store, process or distribut e classified
information must be properly managed to protect against unauthorized
disclosure of classified information, loss of data integrity, and to
ensure the availability of data and system. The perception that OSS is
less secure than "professionally" developed closed source proprietary
software is a common one, but is substantially flawed. Discussing the
real situati on of OSS with respect to security, trust and privacy
will prove that OSS can be more trusted in the wide deployment.

OSS provides an opportunity to achieve a public sector that is just,
effective, transparent and accountable. To establish the
sustainability of OSS in public sector, OSS must create business
opportunities for private firms, reduce cost of IT inves tment in the
private and/or public sectors of the economy and improve the
efficiency and effectiveness of government. Theref ore, OSS can assist
in bridging the digital gap between developed and developing
countries. Thus, a framework for understan ding the policy
implications surrounding open source software should be developed in
order to ensure the success of implementation.

The openness of OSS creates opportunities to provide bigger
accessibility of the ICT. Accessibility is used to describe the degree
to which a system is usable by as many people as possible. It is about
inclusion of all people. Particular groups of users are still being
neglected in the development of ICT such as women and people who has
limitation in language. Women constitute over half of the population,
by far a majority yet their numbers are not evident in ICT
applications and the ICT industry. Other aspects is the language,
predominant technology is supplied in European languages yet for many
developing countries this is not their mother tongue and they are
limited to accessing either later in life or through a second
language.

The focus of this track is the discussion about development and
implementation of various open source software and solution for
various domains. The topics of interest of the track include:

1.1. Studies of OSS deployment
* OSS as solution for the public sector: Government, Education,
Health Care or Defense
* OSS as solution for private sector
* Mining and analyzing the OSS projects repositories
* Knowledge management, eLearning platform using OSS
* Quality metrics for the OSS artifacts
* Software assurance method for OSS development
* Social impact and cultural issues in use of OSS
* Policy issues in use and development of OSS
* Assessment and development methodologies for OSS projects and
projects employing OSS
* User-centered design, human factor and usability aspects of OSS
* Training strategies for OSS deployment
* Trust, security and privacy in OSS
* OSS and dependability system
* Scalability issues
* Case studies

1.2. Specific OSS solutions for IT
* OSS solutions for infrastructures, middle-ware
* OSS solutions for data grid computing
* Health services management and E-Health
* Biomedical Ontologies and Very Large Databases
* Semantic web technologies
* Enterprise system using OSS such as ERP, CRM and Decision Support
System
* Application and development of OSS database management systems
* Embedding OSS code in larger applications
* OSS data sharing solutions: distributed file systems, data
spaces, P2P environments
* OSS for data intensive applications
* Service Oriented Architecture
* Business-oriented and consumer-oriented system
* CASE tools for system development
* Open source in smart phones and mobile networked devices
* Open hardware and licensing
* Case studies

1.3. OSS communities and project management
* Working with OSS communities
* Organizational and management issues
* Coordination among member of OSS development projects
* OSS development projects across national boundaries
* Requirement engineering in OSS development projects
* Project management issues related to OSS development projects
* Sustainability of Open Source Projects
* Open Source and Open Standard as government policy
* Woman in Open Source development activities
* Law, culture, and non technical issues
* Open source in democracy, politics, government, and education
* Best practices for building a business model around open source
* Community, users and architecture of collaboration
* Interoperability frameworks and inter-administratio n in e-Government
* Case studies

Track 2. Open Content

In recent years, there is a strong interest among academics, policy
makers, activists, businessmen and other practitioners in open
collaboration and access as a driver of creativity. The focus of this
track is to discuss the mechanism of free dissemination and access of
knowledge. Internet offers the possibility of making knowledge
universally accessible. Nowadays, research organizations advocate
consistently using the Internet for scientific communication and
publishing. Their recommendations in favor of open access are directed
not only at research institutions but also and to the same extent at
cultural institutes such as libraries, archives, and museums. As a
result, publishing practices are expected to undergo considerable
changes.

OSS has a complementary and reciprocal relationship to research and
education. One needs an educated section of the population to fulfill
the full potential of OSS, and at the same time OSS helps, enhances
and complements education by providing tools to promote research and
education. OSS provides opportunities: unrestricted access to the
source code and knowledge, an environment of unlimited experimentation
and tinkering and collaboration and interaction with a community of
programmers, coders and users around the world.

The notions of open science and open data demonstrate the strong
tradition of openness in the academic community. The open nature of
open content, makes the collaboration for creative work more
sustainable. Open access journals and other open content provide
inspiring examples of collaborative creativity and participatory
access, such as Wikipedia. Open collaboration is closely linked to
access to knowledge issues, enabling active participation rather than
passive consumption especially in developing countries. Open
Collaboration and access are the driver of creativity.

Open access publishing is known to involve the free availability of
the results of research mainly in the form of scholarly articles. For
authors, open access can be achieved by publishing articles in open
access journals, and/or by storing copies of articles in open access
archives or repositories. Publishing articles in this mechanism is
considered an alternative to publishing in the traditional journals.
An Open Access journal allows all those who have Internet access to
freely read, download, copy, distribute, and print articles and other
materials. Open content often looks explicitly towards open source
software for business models, and open science provides through its
history a glimpse of the potential of openness,

The concept of aggregating, sharing, and collaboratively enriching
free educational materials over the Internet has been emerging over
the past several years. The movement has been led by faculty members
and content specialists who believe that making lesson plans, training
modules and full courses freely available can help improve teaching.
Unfortunately, the movement to use open educational resources in
higher education has not yet realized the full impact. It is still in
its infancy and faces some technical and cultural challenges that
affect its widespread adoption.

Interoperability — the ability of multiple initiatives on different
technology platforms to seamlessly share metadata and resources–is at
the root of the technical challenge for open education resources.
While the present lack of interoperability is a challenge, it is also
the nature of innovation, such as the make use of Open Standard. Open
Standards are also increasingly seen as key enablers of the transfer
of information across organizations, systems, and devices.

The closed-door, "this is mine" mentality and pride of ownership over
content are still the great challenge to open educational resources.
Issues of ownership and intellectual property rights are a related
cultural – and legal – challenge. Still to be discussed is the value
of licenses that allow for commercial or non-commercial use of
content, and the importance of enabling the modification and
adaptation of the content.

Open Source and Open Content can bring a global revolution in teaching
and learning in which educators and students could be much more
actively engaged as creators, users, and adapters of content. This
transformation can only occur if educators, authors, publishers, and
higher education institutions make more materials available and
accessible for public use. Open education holds the promise of opening
the door of higher education to millions. For example, open content
can reduce the need to purchase expensive textbooks, which can
constitute up to three-fourths of community-college students'
spending. A national policy document for developing countries could be
used by government or their science-funding organizations to speed up
the scientific progress

Human capacity, including skills and competencies, is vital to success
in a knowledge economy, and OSS and Open Content provides a basis for
building such skills because of low barriers to entry and innovation.

2.1. Open Content
* Case studies of Open Content usage
* Open Content for disseminating learning material
* Open Content in developing countries
* Sustainability of open content projects
* Open Standard format for document and data
* OpenGIS
* Open Content development and publishing model
* Legal aspects of Open Content

2.2. Open Access
* Case studies of Open Access
* Open Access Journal
* Dissemination of scientific work
* Disseminating the learning material
* Library and Open Access policy
* Open Archiving
* Freedom of Information Access

2.3 Bussines model for Open Access and Open Content
* Business model for using the open access material
* Government projects using the open contents material
* Government projects which encourage the development of open
content material
* Capacity and community building projects using open content material

Papers should address the issues involved in building sustainable
models for openness in science, software and content. They can examine
technical, sociological, economic/business and legal issues, and can
be conceptual or practical in nature. Case studies by practitioners
are welcome.

Paper Submission

WOSOC 2008 invites submission of high quality and original papers on
the topics of the major tracks.. Prospective authors are invited to
submit their full paper (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size
of 10 to 12) to WOSOC 2008 Organizing Committee. Email submissions in
ODF, LaTeX, or PDF formats are preferable. All reasonable typesetting
formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be
asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their
papers for publication) .

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers
for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to the
topics of the corresponding track. Each paper will be refereed by two
experts in the field who are independent of the conference program
committee. The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by one
member of the program committee who will recommend a decision to the
co-chairs of the track. The track chairs will make the final decision.
Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one member of the
program committee.

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published
or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of
the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
postal address, and email address of each author as well as the name
of the conference the paper is being submitted. The first page should
also identify the name of the contact author and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and CD
which published by patner of WOSOC organization.

All WOSOC 2008 speakers have their conference registration fee waived.
Note that it is important that you get your papers in by the due
dates. We reserve the right to withdraw the free registration if you
do not get it in on time. If you are having problems meeting the
deadlines, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can work
with you to figure it out. There is specific registration fee for
citizenship of Indonesia who stay in Indonesia, please contact Eri
Prasetyo [eri_at_staff. gunadarma. ac.id], please change _at_ with @.

Submission August 22nd, 2008
Notification September 12th, 2008
Camera Ready October 3rd, 2008
Author registration October 10th, 2008
Conference November 30th – December 3rd , 2008

Organization

Hononary Chairs
Eko Sri Margianti, Gunadarma University, Indonesia

General Chairs
Cahyana, Ministry of Information and Communication, Indonesia

General Vice Chairs
Yuhara Sukra, Gunadarma Univeristy, Indonesia
Budi Darmadi, Ministry of Industry of Republic of Indonesia, Indonesia
[in process]
Suryadi, H. S., Gunadarma University, Indonesia

Track Organizer
Open Source Software track : Adang Suhendra, Gunadarma University,
Indonesia
Open Content track : A. Benny Mutiara, Gunadarma University, Indonesia

Steering Committee
Alexander Rusli (Ministry of State Owned Enterprises, Indonesia)
Engkos Koswara (Ministry of Research of Technology, Indonesia)
Ernesto Damiani, Milan University, Italy
Haklin Alex Kimm (East Stroudburg University, USA)
Kokou Yetongnon (Bourgogne University, France)
Onno W Poerbo (Independence, Indonesia)
Peter B. Ladkin (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Local Commitee
I Made Wiryana, Gunadarma University, Indonesia (Co-Chair)
A. Benny Mutiara, Gunadarma University, Indonesia
Tb. Maulana Kusuma, Gunadarma University, Indonesia
I Wayan Simri Wicaksana, Gunadarma University, Indonesia
Eri Prasetyo, Gunadarma University, Indonesia
Adang Suhendra, Gunadarma University, Indonesia
Hotniar Siringoringo, Gunadarma University, Indonesia

Program Commitee
A Benny Mutiara (Gunadarma University, Indonesia)
AB Susanto (Ministry of Education, Diponegoro University, Indonesia)
Adang Suhendra (Gunadarma University, Indonesia)
Alexander Rusli (Ministry of State Owned Enterprises, Indonesia)
Ariya Hidayat (KDE,Germany)
Agus Rubiyanto MSc (Sepuluh November Institute of Technology, Indonesia)
Bernd Lutterbeck (TU Berlin, Germany)
Ernesto Damiani, Milan University, Italy
Engkos Koswara (Ministry of Research of Technology, Indonesia)
Eric Leclercq (Bourgogne University, France)
Harold Thimbleby (Swansea University, ...) [in process]
Haklin Alex Kimm (East Stroudburg University, USA)
I Made Wiryana (Gunadarma University, Indonesia)
I Wayan Redana (Udayana University, Indonesia)
I Wayan Simri Wicaksana (Gunadarma University, Indonesia)
I Wayan Warmada (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia)
Jan-Torsten. Milde (FH Fulda) [in process]
Junhua Tang (Shanghai JiaoTong University, China)
Kenji Saga (Japan) [in process]
Kokou Yetongnon (Bourgogne University, France)
Lukito Edi Nugroho (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia)
Ma Ying-hua (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Mohammad Aulia (Haeys Associate, YPLI, Indonesia)
Mohammand DAMT (Independence, Indonesia)
Onno W Poerbo (Independence, Indonesia)
Peter B. Ladkin (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Putu Laxman Pendit (Independence, Indonesia)
Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France)
Romi Satrio Wahono MEng(Indonesian Institute of Science,
Ilmukomputer. com, Indonesia)
Rusmanto (Yayasan Penggerak Linux Indonesia, Indonesia)
Sulistyo Basuki (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)
Suryadi H.S. (Gunadarma University, Indonesia)
Tb. Maulana Kusuma, Gunadarma University, Indonesia
Xiaojuan Liu ( Lanzhou JiaoTong University, China)
Yue Wu (Shanghai JiaoTong University, China)

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