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[Robin Millette]

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rapidement, on arriverait à le traduire, j'en suis sûr.

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Subject: [F/OSS-Community] CFP: Upgrade Magazine special issue on libre 
software as a field of study
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 02:38:49 +0200
From: Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona <jgb at gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
Organization: GSyC-URJC
To: community at opensource.mit.edu

[Please, redistribute this call to those who could be interested in it]

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Call for contributions to an special issue of Upgrade Magazine on
"Libre software as a field of study"
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Upgrade, the flagship magazine of CEPIS (Council of
European Professional Informatics Societies) is publishing an special
issue on libre (free, open source) software as a matter of study,
scheduled to appear on July 2005.

The guest editors for this special issue, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
and Stefan Koch are looking for articles for it, in one or many of the
following topics:

- Libre software engineering (software development, processes and
methods, best practices)

- Empirical studies on libre software (dealing with
products. processes or both)

- Libre software economics, and research on business models

- Software development with libre software

- Research on other issues related to libre software (such as legal,
ethical or sociological issues)

All the topics should be dealt with in the context of a publication
targeted to IT professionals, including enough introduction to explain
the problems being researched, and extensive references to related
work. Articles describing the state of the art in any of the specified
topics (or in a part of them) are specially welcome. Works can present
non-published research, or new focus on already published own works
(in that case they should be substantially original, clearly reflect
a new focus on the research). In any case the author(s) are requested
to send articles not published elsewhere.

Articles for Upgrade are about 3,000 words long, but some variance is
admitted. All submitted articles will be reviewed at least by one
expert in the topic, and their comments will be made available to the
main author along with the decision about publication.

Authors are encouraged (but not required) to send their work under a
Creative Commons or similar license. If some specific licenses of the
Creative Commons family are used, no transfer of copyright by the
author(s) to Upgrade will be required .

Deadlines:

- May 15th: notifications of intention (700 words extended abstract)
- May 17th: feedback from editors
- May 25th: submission of whole articles (3,000 words)
- June 5th: notification of acceptance
- June 15th: submission of final versions

Upon receiving a notification of intention, the guest editors will
inform the submitters about the interest of their proposed
contribution for the special issue. Therefore, the more detail the
notification includes, the better the guest editors will be able of
providing feedback to the authors.

Both notifications of intention and submissions should be sent both
tho the Upgrade chief editor and to the guest editors of this special
issue (see addresses below)

Formats:

Extended abstract should be sent in PDF format. Articles should be
sent both in PDF and in an editable format (LaTeX and DocBook/XML
may be considered, RTF and OpenOffice.org formats are preferred)

Articles should include the following information:

- Short professional CV (6-10 lines) of all the authors, including
their e-mail addresses.
- Abstract (5-8 lines)
- Keywords (4-7)

Addresses:

Upgrade chief editor:
    Rafael Calvo, rfcalvo (a) ati . es

Guest editors for this special issue:
    Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, jgb (a) gsyc.escet . urjc.es
    Stefan Koch, stefan.koch (a) wu-wien . ac.at

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About Upgrade:

Upgrade, http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/ is an online publication, which
offers all its material freely available in the net. Upgrade is
published online by CEPIS in English, and most of its contents are
republished (either online or in paper) by some national organizations
members of CEPIS, usually translated into other languages. Upgrade is
targeted at European IT professionals.

About CEPIS:

CEPIS, http://www.cepis.org/ the Council of European Professional
Informatics Societies, and targeted mainly at European IT
professionals.

About the term "libre software":

We use the term "libre software" to refer
to any code that conforms either to the definition of "free
software" (according to the Free Software Foundation) or
"open source software" (according to the Open Source Initiative). The
term, rooted in Romanic languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese
or Italian, was proposed in  the  early 1990s to avoid the ambiguity
of "free" in English, and is currently used in some contexts to
refer to the intersection of "libre" and "open source" software.

About Creative Commons:

Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org  is a group publishing a
set of  licenses aimed at exploring less restrictive rights for
receivers of intangibles (such as, in our case, articles). Their
licenses can be used completely free of charge and with no obligation
to the Creative Commons group or any other third party. For this
issue, the guest editors recommend the Attribution-NoDerivs,
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ licenses, although
other are of course accepted.

-- 
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