Programme

tOSSad 2006 Workshop Programme 

Saturday, June 10th 2006, Italy, Como, Grand Hotel, Room: Balbianello

09:00-09:10: Welcome and Opening,  Bülent Özel

09:10-09:30: "tOSSad Project", Kaan Erkan, Project Coordinator

09:30:10:45: Session 1: FLOSS Training/Educating Needs and Methods, Chair: Michele Marchesi

Presentations:

• Enn Õunapuu, “Determining best F/OSS training methods”

• Onur ihsan Arsun and Selahattin Kuru, “A Questionnaire for F/OSS Training Needs Analysis”

• Kivilcim Hindistan, Boran Puhaloglu, Emre Sevinç, Ergin Sevinç, Alper Tuna and Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu,  “Computers for Kids: More Than a Simple Recycling Operation”

• Bülent Özel, Mehmet Gençer and Chris Stephenson, “An MSc Programme in Open Source Information Systems”

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:30 Session 2: FLOSS Training Experiences, Chair: Michele Marchesi

Presentations:

• Anas Tawileh, “Experiences in Building a Free and Open Source Software Training and Certification Programme”

• Giluio Concas, Michele Marchesi, Andrea Piras, Stefano Sanna, Efisio Sciola, and Selene Uras, “Polaris4OS: a best practice for training and adoption of F/OSS in SME”

•  Mehmet Gençer and Chris Stephenson “FLOSS in Academic Computing Infrastructure: Experiences in Computer Science, Mathematics  and Bussiness Informatics Departments”

12:30-13:15 Lunch break

13:15-16:00 Session 3: FLOSS adoption cases and experiences, Chair: Bülent Özel

Presentations:

• Michael Amberg and Steffen Möller, “Adoption of Open Source Software on the Enterprise Desktop”

• Oliver Strauss, Oliver Höß and Anette Weisbecker, "Using a WikiWikiWeb to support Open Source Adoption in Small and Medium Sized Companies"

• Bardhyl Jashari and Filip Stojanovski, “Challenges and obstacles: Usage of Free and Open Source Software in local government in Macedonia”

• Harald Schmidbauer, V. Sinan Tunalioglu, Bülent Özel, and Mehmet Gençer, “Free and Open Source Software, Human Development and Public Policy Making: International Comparison”

• Bülent Özel, Julia Velkova, and Manon von Leeuwen, “F/OSS in European National Programmes”

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:15 Session 4: Legal Issues in FLOSS Adoption, Chair: Julia Velkova

Presentations:

• Andrés Guadamuz González, “GPL v3: A legal Analysis”

• Darren Skidmore, “Too many Open Source Licenses!  But do the existing licenses adequately encompass the diverse needs and concerns of particular stakeholders?”

17:15-18:00 Session 5: Usability in FLOSS; Chair: Sandra  Frings

Presentations:

• Damiano Verzulli, Uros Juvanovic and Görkem Çetin, “A F/OSS Usability Study: tOSSad Case”

• Ellen Reitmayr, Björn Balazs and Jan Mühlig, “Integrating Usability into Open Source Development: Case Studies from the Initiative OpenUsability.org

18:00- Conclusions & Closing