Topics of Interest

Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):

• definitions and characteristics of open source sustainability;
• the role of open standards, open data, open innovation (and other form of openness) and its relationship with open source for sustainability;
• challenges of building and maintaining sustainable open source communities;
• business and economic sustainability models of open source software;
• software engineering practices for sustainable open source projects;
• the role of socio-cultural issues in sustainable open source ecosystems;
• legality and licensing concerns in maintaining sustainable open source projects;
• mining sustainability related data from existing open source communities;
• practical approaches, best practices, frameworks, methodologies, technologies, tools, and environments to support sustainable open source;
• long term industrial involvement in building, managing and interfacing with communities: opening up software platforms and acquiring open source software, motives and cost-benefit models;
• building sustainable open source communities: the role of companies, academy, governments, NGOs, and individuals;
• the role of open source in ICT and sustainable development;
• experience reports and lessons on sustainable open source ecosystems.