[esocialaction] FW: CFP - Supporting the Social Side of Large-Scale SoftwareDevelopment - workshop at CSCW 2006

[Dearden, Andrew M]

From: Ann Light [mailto:annl at dcs.qmul.ac.uk] 
Sent: 06 July 2006 08:25
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Subject: FW: CFP - Supporting the Social Side of Large-Scale SoftwareDevelopment - workshop at CSCW 2006


Specifically mentions open source as area of attention...
 
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Subject: CFP - Supporting the Social Side of Large-Scale Software Development - workshop at CSCW 2006


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Supporting the Social Side of Large-Scale Software Development -
A  CSCW 2006 Workshop  (Banff, Alberta, Canada)
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IMPORTANT DATES

September 15,2006   : submissions due
September 29,2006   : notification of acceptance
TBD                         : CSCW early registration deadline
November  4, 2006    : workshop
November 4-10, 2006 : CSCW conference

WORKSHOP WEB SITE:        http://software-research.ca/social-se <http://software-research.ca/social-se> 
CSCW CONFERENCE WEBSITE:  http://www.acm.org/cscw2006 <http://www.acm.org/cscw2006> 

ORGANIZERS

Li-Te Cheng, IBM Research
Anthony Cox, Dalhousie University
Rob DeLine,  Microsoft Research
Cleidson de Souza, Universidade Federal do Para
Kevin Schneider, University of Saskatchewan
Janice Singer, National Research Council of Canada
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria
Gina Venolia, Microsoft Research

CONTACT PERSON:
Li-Te Cheng, IBM Research, li-te_cheng at us.ibm.com

Both the software engineering and the CSCW communities recognize that  
software development is a collaborative activity, and much recent  
research has begun to appear in this domain.  In this full-day  
workshop, we plan to explore the social side of software development  
with an emphasis on tool support and a focus on large-scale projects  
such as open source, commercial, and government projects.  Through a  
series of brief presentations and interactive sessions, we seek to  
increase awareness and knowledge of current social issues of software  
development, identify different kinds of tools that can support  
collaborative and social activities in software development, exchange  
ideas and experiences on how to evaluate collaborative software  
development tools, and to build a cross-disciplinary community of  
researchers and practitioners from academia and industry.

This full-day workshop seeks participation from a broad community of  
researchers and thus we elicit a broad set of topics
in our call for position papers that may lead to improved tools in  
collaborative software development for large-scale projects.  Topics  
include:

* Navigational systems for software development, (e.g. recommender  
systems, search, and browsers, that may leverage spatial memory)

* New media for capturing knowledge around software development (e.g.  
novel uses of annotations, wikis, blogs, virtual worlds, and shared  
workspace tools)

* Communication, collaboration, and awareness tools for large-scale  
software development

* Visualization systems to support social aspects of large-scale  
software development

* Ethnography or other empirical studies of large-scale software  
development, such as studies of artifacts left by software  
development, geographically-distributed development, ìagileî  
techniques, and induction of new developers into a team, that propose  
analytical models for understanding software development settings,  
which lead to implications for tool design

* Evaluation techniques for studying the effectiveness and impact of  
collaborative software development tools

SUBMISSIONS

We are targeting a maximum of 25 participants, not including the  
organizers, to facilitate community building.

Position papers will be required to address one or more the topics  
listed above and/or expound on the theme of the workshop.

Position papers (Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word format) should be no  
more than 4 pages using the ACM template ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/ <http://www.acm.org/sigs/> pubs/proceed/template.html ).

Papers can discuss existing or future studies and/or tools.

Keywords are required for position papers, because we plan to use  
this to help plan out a card-sorting exercise at the workshop.

Email position papers to li-te_cheng at us.ibm.com

The deadline for submissions is September 15th.  Notification of  
acceptance is September 29th.  The workshop itself takes place on  
November 4th.

Please note that participants will be expected to prepare a poster.
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