Dear all,

Just a reminder there are less than 2 weeks left to submit your paper to OpenSym 2018 (March, 15). Conference Website and call for papers: http://opensym.org

You'll find at the same address the Doctoral Symposium and the Industrial and Community track calls.

Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018 (accepted rate in 2017 for the regular research track: 45%)

Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on subjects related to open collaboration including: - Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media - Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) - Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science - Open Education - IT-Driven Open Innovation - Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law - Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research

Looking forward to seeing your paper's presentation in Paris

Nicolas Jullien, general chair of OpenSym 2018

About the Conference --------------------

OpenSym is the only conference that brings together the different strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from computer science, information science, social science, humanities, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing our society. This year’s conference will be held in Paris, France on August 22-24, 2018. A Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 21, 2018. OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like all prior editions.

Submission Information and Instructions --------------------------------------- Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on subjects related to open collaboration including: - Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media - Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) - Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science - Open Education - IT-Driven Open Innovation - Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law - Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research Paper Presentation: OpenSym 2018 will be organized as a one track conference in order to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of this conference and to encourage discussion. Submission Deadline: The research paper submission deadline is March 15th 2018. Submitted papers should present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design, development and/or deployment of novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation. All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018 Paper Length: There is no minimum or maximum length for submitted papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its length. Papers should report research thoroughly but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. A typical length of a “long research paper” is 10 pages (formerly the maximum length limit and the limit on OpenSym tracks), but may be shorter if the contribution can be described and supported in fewer pages—shorter, more focused papers (called “short research papers” previously) are encouraged and will be reviewed like any other paper. While we will review papers longer than 10 pages, the contribution must warrant the extra length. Reviewers will be instructed to reject papers whose length is incommensurate with the size of their contribution. Papers should be formatted in ACM SIGCHI paper format. Reviewing is not double-blind so manuscripts do not need to be anonymized. Posters: As in previous years, OpenSym will also be hosting a poster session at the conference. To propose a poster, authors should submit an extended abstract (not more than 4 pages) describing the content of the poster which will be published in a non-archival companion proceedings to the conference. Posters should use the ACM SIGCHI templates for extended abstracts. An example of a poster abstract can be found here. Reviewing is not double-blind so abstracts do not need to be anonymized. Paper Proceedings: OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like all prior editions. OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the different research disciplines it draws on including disciplines with archival conference proceedings and disciplines where authors usually present at conferences and publish later. Authors, whose submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference have a choice of: having their paper become part of the official proceedings, archived in the ACM Digital Library, having their paper published in the conference website only, with no transfer of copyright from the authors, having no publication record at all but only the presentation at the conference. Response from authors: For the second time at OpenSym, authors will be given the opportunity to write a response to their reviews before final decisions are made. This should be treated as an opportunity to correct any mistakes or misconceptions in the reviews as well as to propose minor changes that the authors can make during the two weeks between notification and the camera-ready deadline. Important Dates Submission deadline: March 15, 2018 Reviews sent to authors: May 11, 2018 Response to reviews from authors due: May 20, 2018 Final decision notification: June 15, 2018 Camera-ready papers due: June 22, 2018 Papers available online: July 13, 2018 Conference Organization The general chairs of the conference are Nicolas Jullien and Olivier Berger, IMT, France. Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have at info@opensym.org.

Nicolas Jullien