Second international workshop on emerging trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software research and development - FLOSS09

The Workshop on “Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development” is based on the ever growing interest of researchers and practitioners on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), and will be specifically based on discussing the phenomenon of global FLOSS development and how to identify and define, if any, how FLOSS communities could benefit from traditional Software Engineering practices, and viceversa. For this purpose, the overarching theme of this workshop is “Closing the Gap between Software Engineering and FLOSS Development”. Its main goal will be to bring together academic researchers, industry members and FLOSS developers and to discuss what aspects and practices are common in both the Software Engineering and the FLOSS development modes, and where and how these practices differ substantially.