ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Francesco BOLICI, Ph.D.	Andrea CARUGATI, Ph.D.	Kevin CROWSTON, Ph.D.	U. Yeliz ESERYEL, Ph.D. Student	Barbara SCOZZI, Ph.D.
OrgLab, Università degli Studi di Cassino Via S.Angelo - 03043 Cassino ITALY	IESEG School of Management 3, rue de la Digue 59800 LILLE FRANCE	Syracuse University School of Information Studies 348 Hinds Hall Syracuse, NY 13244–4100 USA	Syracuse University School of Information Studies 337Hinds Hall Syracuse, NY 13244–4100 USA	Polytechnic of Bari Dept. of Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development Viale del Turismo 8, 74100 Taranto, ITALY
francesco.bolici@ eco.unicas.it +39 (0)776 299 4710	a.carugati@ieseg.fr +33 (0)320 54 5892	crowston@syr.edu +1 (315) 443–1676	yeliz2002@ alum.syracuse.edu +1 (315) 447-5558	scozzi.barbara@tiscali.it +39 (0)80 596 4218

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

A workshop entitled "Open Source, Open Ideas" will be held on Tuesday May 29th at the Politecnico di Bari campus between 9am and 5pm 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. The main goal of the workshop is to create opportunities for future collaboration.

The meeting is free and open to all faculty as well as the broader OS community. The participants will have the opportunity to make 15-30 minute presentations on their research on Open Source Software.

To register for the workshop please email yeliz2002@gmail.com with the subject line "Open Source Open Ideas". Please mention which aspect of Open Source Software your research focuses on.
PLEASE PREREGISTER BY MAY 15 SO THAT WE CAN GET A HEADCOUNT FOR THE EVENT.
This will also allow you to receive updates on this workshop.
THE LANGUAGE OF THE WORKSHOP IS ENGLISH

SCHEDULE (NOTE THAT SCHEDULE CHANGED ON MAY 28)

May 28
Mon 20.30	Welcome Dinner at Terranima Restaurant* (http://www.terranima.com/)
	To go to Terranima Restaurant, we suggest taking a taxi from the hotel, but if you want to walk or drive, here are the directions
May 29
Tue 09.00-09.15	WELCOME FROM POLYTECHNIC OF BARI
Tue 09.15-09.45	FLOSS RESEARCH- STATE OF THE ART (Kevin Crowston, Professor - Syracuse University School of Information Studies)
	WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT PRESENTATIONS
Tue 09.45-10.00	Francesco P. Lovergine, Staff Researcher, CNR ISSIA, Italy
Tue 10.00-10.15	Guoli Zhang, Student, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Tue 10.15-10.30	Marta Cimitile,Ph.D. Student, University o Bari
Tue 10.30-10.45	Filippo Lanubile, Assoc. Prof., University of Bari, Italy
Tue 10.45-11.00	Alessandro Pagano, Student, Università degli studi di Bari, Italy
Tue 11.00-11.30	COFFEE BREAK (Drinks and snacks will be provided)
	WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT PRESENTATIONS (continued)
Tue 11.30-11.45	Fulvio Frati and Alberto Colombo, Researchers, Department of Information Technology, University of Milan, Italy
Tue 11.45-12.00	Barbara Scozzi, Asst. Prof, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Tue 12.00-12.10	Kevin Crowston, Prof,Syracuse University School of Information Studies, US
Tue 12.10-12.20	Yeliz Eseryel, Ph.D. Student, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, US
Tue 12.20-12.30	Qing Li, Ph.D. Student, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, US
Tue 12.30-12.45	Luciano Schiavoni, Director, Research and Innovation, Tecnopolis CSATA scrl, Italy
Tue 12.45-13.00	Alessandro Rossi, Asst. Prof, Research on Organizations, Coordination and Knowledge, University of Trento, Italy
Tue 13.00-14.15	LUNCH (Lunch will be provided)
	WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT PRESENTATIONS (continued)
Tue 14.15-14.30	Francesco Bolici & Francesco Virili, Asst. Prof, Università degli Studi di Cassino, Italy
Tue 14.30-14.45	Massimiliano Gambardella, Junior Researcher, Associazione Omega, , Italy
Tue 14.45-15.00	Francesca B. Cice, Journalist, Webmaster of PLIO
Tue 15.00-15.30	PRESENTATION OF EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES BY: Agency for the Promotion of European Research (APRE) and, Regional Agency For Technology And Innovation(ARTI)
Tue 15.30-15.45	BREAK
Tue 15.45-17.00	BRAINSTORMING ON POTENTIAL RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES ON FLOSS

* The workshop doesn't cover the dinner fees.

WORKSHOP HAND-OUTS

Abstracts of the Presentations


Presentations from the Workshop: Zipped files.


Contact Information of Participants: Please note that this document also includes info of some researchers who were interested, yet couldn't attend the workshop.

Brain-writing Session Notes : These are the notes from brain-writing session to identify future research opportunities based on the workshop. If you have other ideas that you would like to share with the rest of the participants, feel free to email Yeliz at yeliz2002@alum.syracuse.edu to be shared.

DIRECTIONS TO THE WORKSHOP LOCATION IN POLYTECHNIC OF BARI

The workshop will be in Aula Magna “Attilio Alto”.
Please click here to see the directions (in Italian and in English)to the campus and a campus map to find the workshop building.

2007 WORKSHOP VENUE

Polytechnic of Bari
Engineering College
Via Orabona 4
70100 Bari, Italy

TRAVEL TIPS

The air companies that arrive to Bari are listed at http://www.seap-puglia.it/default.asp?idlingua=1&idContenuto=460
Low cost companies: Alpi Eagleas, Volareweb.com, Blu-express and Ryan Air                            

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

WHERE TO STAY

1) To stay at a hotel within the university campus where the workshop is held:

Hotel Campus
Via Ulpiani Celso, 11
70126 Bari (BA)
+39 080 5520805

The hotel rate for workshop participants are:
- single room € 32,00 per night (breakfast included)
- double room € 52,00 per night (breakfast included)

Please reserve by May 15 and mention that you will attend the workshop at the Politechnic of Bari.                             

2) For information on where to stay outside of the campus:

Please email Barbara Scozzi (bscozzi@poliba.it) with the subject line "Open Source Open Ideas".