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ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS on “OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
SYSTEMS CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES”<br>
18-20 October, 2010<br>
Venue: University of Kashmir (Srinagar)<br>
Organiser: DLIS, Kashmir University<br>
Partner: Information Technology Department, Government of J&K.<br>
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INTRODUCTION<br>
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Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are necessary to achieve the objective of transforming the novice into IT enabled citizens of tomorrow in a cost effective and sustainable way to suit need of diverse stakeholders in inclusive knowledge society. The success of different conferences and workshops especially from 2005 by the Department on various recent themes like Digital Library initiatives, Open Access, web resources, Application Digital Library software etc has encouraged and motivated us in partnership with Department of IT in stimulating a forum for different professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom.<br>
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The conference will focus on adoption, implementation and utilization of Open Source Software Systems in e-learning, e-governance in<br>
knowledge based society to enable an effective reach and connectivity between citizen and government and government to citizen (C2Z&Z2C). We invite you all to submit your research paper.<br>
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Who should participate?<br>
(a) Information Technology professionals.<br>
(b) Content and knowledge Managers and e-governance institutes<br>
(c) Policy makers, Educationists, Health professionals<br>
(d) Academicians, students and distance learners<br>
(e) Archivists and Museologists<br>
(f) Information providers and vendors.<br>
(g) E-publishers and virtual electronic communities<br>
(h) Library and Information Science professionals.<br>
(i) Engineering Faculty, Workers, entrepreneurs<br>
(j) Corporate and business Houses, Banking, Insurance sectors and Media<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
Last Date for Paper Submission : September 20, 2010<br>
Last Date for Poster Submission : September 25, 2010<br>
(All papers/posters are subject to peer review)<br>
Communication of Acceptance : September 30, 2010<br>
(Papers/Posters with comments)<br>
Submission of the revised paper : October 08, 2010<br>
(After incorporating comments)<br>
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THEME<br>
The deliberations will focus mainly on following areas. (However, any other relevant topic can be included/ addressed as well.)<br>
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Open Source: Sociology & Growth<br>
Practices, innovation, communities, sociology of open source, open source for non profits, customization, Extending technology and<br>
impact.<br>
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Open Source: Challenges and opportunities.<br>
License and Legal Aspects, Maintenance and upgradation, Customization, Economic and financial aspects, Cost effectiveness, etc<br>
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Open Source: Software & Design<br>
Development and administration, solutions, metrics, design, immigration to open source, open source aspect to programming,<br>
modularity and interoperability.<br>
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Open Source: Commercial Aspect<br>
Commercialization of open source software, revenue aspect<br>
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Government sector: Adaptation (Challenges and issues)<br>
Application in Development Areas, Overview of Developers in Government to citizen and citizen to Government, Emphasis on web servers, content management software, server operating systems, embedded systems (such as secure gateways and network attached storage,), ‘middleware’ systems (Allowing communications between different systems)<br>
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Adoption of Open Source in Business World:<br>
Developing nations and open source, open source and India, Breaking the myth<br>
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Operating systems and other utilities:<br>
Linux, Mozilla, Debian, Apache, LAMP, Mysql, AJAX.<br>
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Special Groups and Applications:<br>
Government/Open Governance /Education/Health/Music/Libraries/Information<br>
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Digital Content creation and delivery:<br>
Audio, Video, 3D, Animation, Recreation, Digital library etc<br>
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Data extraction and mining:<br>
Algorithms and adoption of new innovative techniques<br>
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Web enabled Technologies:<br>
Social Networking and tools, Impact, Transparency, Accountability.<br>
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GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION<br>
The papers should be in English language of original research or survey or innovative work, or a case study, not already submitted to<br>
any journal / conference for publication or presentation.<br>
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The submitted paper should not exceed more than 5,000 words must include an abstract (not more than 150 words), keywords (not more than ten) and affiliation of the author with email Id.<br>
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Follow APA style for citations and references. For further guidance please visit <a href="http://www.apastyle.org" target="_blank">www.apastyle.org</a><br>
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The paper / poster should be sent to any of the coordinators preferably in word format and tables, diagrams as a separate file to<br>
<a href="mailto:osss2010@uok.edu.in">osss2010@uok.edu.in</a> or <a href="mailto:osss2010@kashmiruniversity.ac.in">osss2010@kashmiruniversity.ac.in</a><br>
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The poster details need to be sent in soft format and the contributors should bring printed page(s) of the poster, mountable on the boards provided for the purpose by organisers. The Standard size should be 24X24 inches of each page/poster.<br>
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TUTORIALS<br>
Tutorials will be held for special Software and applications in different sectors of Government and Non government areas (depending<br>
upon number of participants in each Tutorial).The tentative tutorials under consideration of organisers are:<br>
- Bhartiya Open source software (BOSS) (Government of India, Ministry of Communications and IT)<br>
- Course Management software (For Schools and Colleges)<br>
- Embedded Systems and Secure Gateways.(For network and automation personnel in different corporate and other institutions)<br>
- Institutional Repositories/ Digital Libraries.(for information, museums, archives etc. personnel)<br>
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PARTICIPANTS<br>
The seminar is focused to different stakeholders of diverse fields (like Government bodies in delivering e- governance, IT Institutions<br>
and organisations, corporate houses, Media, Health professionals, Engineering Faculty, Education and Information Science Professionals). This will go long way in sensitizing people associated directly or indirectly with software development, Application, design, delivery and use both in government and non-government sectors.<br>
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REGISTRATION<br>
Registration of Delegates & Authors starts from First August, 2010<br>
Registration fee for Delegates and participants Rs. 1,500.00<br>
Registration fee (Contributors only) Rs. 500.00<br>
Registration for Tutorial (Additional) Rs. 1,000.00<br>
NOTE: Sponsorships for tutorials, special sessions are also invited from NGOS, Corporate Houses and Societies etc.<br>
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ACCOMMODATION<br>
In view of limited accommodation available in the campus, organisers,
on request, can reserve accommodation for participants in nearby Guest Houses/ Hotels on reasonable rates on first come basis. The tentative tariffs are given below for<br>
convenience of participants:<br>
a) Guest House: Tariff Rs 500-Rs 800.00. (Single/Share basis) (3Kms from venue)<br>
b) A class Hotel: Tariff Rs 1000.00--Rs1500.00 (Single/Share basis)<br>
(3-7kms from venue)<br>
c) Deluxe Hotel: Tariff Rs 2, 000.--3,000. (Single or Share basis)<br>
(7-10Kms from venue)<br>
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ORGANISING SECRETARY<br>
Prof. S. M. SHAFI<br>
Head, DLIS (University of Kashmir)<br>
Contact: 9419008599<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:smshafi@kashmiruniversity.ac.in">smshafi@kashmiruniversity.ac.in</a> or<br>
<a href="mailto:OSSS2010@kashmiruniversity.ac.in">OSSS2010@kashmiruniversity.ac.in</a> OR <a href="mailto:OSSS2010@Uok.edu.in">OSSS2010@Uok.edu.in</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.kashmiruniversity.ac.in/events/188.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.kashmiruniversity.ac.in/events/188.pdf</a><br>
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