ANOUNCEMENT

&
CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

on

“OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES”

May-June, 2011

Venue: University of Kashmir (Srinagar)

Organiser: DLIS, Kashmir University

Partner: Information Technology Department,
Government of J&K.

IMPORTANT DATES

Last Date for Paper Submission : January 20, 2011

Last Date for Poster Submission : January 25, 2011

(All papers/posters are subject to peer review)

Communication of Acceptance : March 20, 2011

(Papers/Posters with comments)

Submission of the revised paper : March 30, 2011

(After incorporating comments)

THEME

The deliberations will focus mainly on following areas. (However, any other relevant topic can be
included/ addressed as well.)

Open Source: Sociology & Growth

Practices, innovation, communities, sociology of open source, open source for non profits,
customization, Extending technology and impact.

Open Source: Challenges and opportunities.

License and Legal Aspects, Maintenance and upgradation, Customization, Economic and financial
aspects, Cost effectiveness, etc

Open Source: Software & Design

Development and administration, solutions, metrics, design, immigration to open source, open source
aspect to programming, modularity and interoperability.

Open Source: Commercial Aspect

Commercialization of open source software, revenue aspect

Government sector: Adoptation (Challenges and issues)

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)

Adoption of Open Source in Business World:

Developing nations and open source, open source and India, Breaking the myth

Operating systems and other utilities:

Linux, Mozilla, Debian, Apache, LAMP, Mysql, AJAX.

Special Groups and Applications:

Government/Open Governance /Education/Health/Music/Libraries/Information

Digital Content creation and delivery:

Audio, Video, 3D, Animation, Recreation, Digital library etc

Data extraction and mining:

Algorithms and adoption of new innovative techniques

Web enabled Technologies:

Social Networking and tools, Impact, Transparency, Accountability.

GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

The papers should be in English language of original research or survey or innovative work, or a case
study, not already submitted to any journal / conference for publication or presentation.

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.

Follow APA style for citations and references. For further guidance please visit www.apastyle.org/

The paper / poster should be sent to any of the coordinators preferably in word format and tables,
diagrams as a separate file @ osss2010@rediffmail.com or osss2010@ymail.com

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.

TUTORIALS

Tutorials will be held for special Software and applications in different sectors of Government and Non
government areas (depending upon number of participants in each Tutorial).The tentative tutorials
under consideration of organisers are:

 Bhartiya Open source software (BOSS) (Government of India, Ministry of

Communications and IT)
 Course Management software (For Schools and Colleges)
 Embedded Systems and Secure Gateways.(For network and automation personnel in
different corporate and other institutions)
 Institutional Repositories/ Digital Libraries.(for information, museums, archives etc.
personnel)
PARTICIPANTS

The seminar is focussed to different stakeholders of diverse fields (like Government bodies in delivering
e- governance, IT Institutions 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.

REGISTRATION

Registration of Delegates & Authors starts from First September, 2010

Registration fee for Delegates and participants Rs. 1,500.00

Registration fee (Contributors only) Rs. 500.00

Registration for Tutorial (Additional) Rs. 1,000.00

NOTE: Sponsorships for tutorials, special sessions are also invited from NGOS, Corporate Houses and
Societies etc.

ACCOMODATION

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 convenience of participants:

a) Guest House: Tariff Rs 500-Rs 800.00. (Single/Share basis) (3Kms from venue)
b) A class Hotel: Tariff Rs 1000.00--Rs1500.00 (Single/Share basis) (3-7kms from venue)
c) Deluxe Hotel: Tariff Rs 2, 000.--3,000. (Single or Share basis) (7-10Kms from venue)

ORGANISING SECRETARY

Prof. S. M. SHAFI

Head, DLIS (University of Kashmir)

Contact: 9419008599
Email: smshafi@kashmiruniversity.ac.in
 COORDINATORS

For Registration, Accommodation & General Enquiry

Nadim Akhtar Khan

Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science,

(University of Kashmir)
Email: nadim@kashmiruniversity.ac.in
Cell: 91-9796715909, 9419900303

For Submission/ Publication of Papers

Dr Sumeer Gul

Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science,

(University of Kashmir)
Email: sumeersuheel@gmail.com
Cell: 8803050076

For Posters, Sponsorship, Publicity and Protocol

Dr. Zahid Ashraf Wani

Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science,

(University of Kashmir)
Email: zahidrais@gmail.com
Cell: 91-9596410521
 NATIONAL SEMINAR ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

MAY -JUNE 2011

REGISTRATION FORM

Name ( use capitals) Professor/Dr/ Mr/ Mrs/Miss ____________________________________________

Designation: __________________________________________________________________________
Affiliation: ____________________________________________________________________________
Gender: Male /Female
Address: _____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Cell: _______________________________ e-mail:__________________________________________
Paper/poster contributor: YES/NO
Title of paper/poster submitted for presentation: ___________________________________________
Status of paper/poster: (Accepted/ submitted/ under process)
Mode of Travel: Air/Road _______________________ Expected date/time of arrival: ______________
Registration fee:
Amount of Rs _______________ enclosed herein vide cheque /draft/ No__________________________
date _____________________Bank___________________________________________ addressed to
organising secretary (OSSS2010) payable @ Srinagar (J&K).
Accommodation Needed: (YES/No)
Please Specify: (single or double occupancy)(Guest house or A class or Deluxe)
If yes, please remit an advance of Rs 1,000.00 vide Cheque/Draft No.___________________________
date_________________ Bank________________________________ addressed to organizing secretary
(OSSS2010) payable @Srinagar (J&K).

DATE: SIGNATURE
Mailing address:
Nadim A Khan
Department of Library and Information science
2nd floor Media House, Kashmir University
HAZRATBAL, SRINAGAR (J&K) INDIA. Pin: 190 006