Themen der Konferenz sind Forschung und Praxisprojekte im Bereich Open Collaboration einschließlich der Aspekte Open Source, Open Data, Open Education, Wikis und Soziale Medien, Wikipedia und Forschung zu IT-gestützter Open Innovation. Die Tracks zu den einzelnen Themengebieten haben eigene Call for Papers veröffentlicht.

Folgende Tracks sind vorgesehen:

• Free, libre, and open source software research, chaired by Stephan Koch, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, and Daniel German, University of Victoria. (More information.)
• Open data research, chaired by Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS and TU Berlin. (More Information.)
• Open education research, chaired by Astrid Wichmann, Ruhr-University Bochum, and Johannes Moskaliuk, University of Tübingen. (More information.)
• IT-driven open innovation research, chaired by Albrecht Fritzsche, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Srinivasan R, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. (More information.)
• Wikipedia and Wikimedia research, chaired by Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin, and Benjamin Mako Hill, University of Washington (More information.)
• Open collaboration (wikis, social media, etc.) research, chaired by Oscar Diaz, Universidad del Pais Vasco, and Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. (More information.)

Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design, development and/or deployment of novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed by a research track program committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation.

Each track has its own call for papers, which you can find at http://www.opensym.org/os2016/call-for-papers/. Submission deadline is March 25th, 2016.

Doctoral Symposium Call for Submissions

OpenSym seeks to explore the synergies between all strands of open collaboration research. Thus, we will have a doctoral symposium, in which Ph.D. students from different disciplines can present their work and receive feedback from senior faculty and their peers. The doctoral symposium is lead by Lutz Prechelt, Freie Universität of Berlin. The call for papers for the doctoral symposium can be found at our website. Submission deadline is May 6th, 2016.