From June 3rd to 6th I attended the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems [OSS 2009] in Skövde, Sweden. The conference, organised by the University of Skövde and the IFIP W.G. 2.13., brought together academia, industry and public administration. The conference consisted of research paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and poster presentations. People from various disciplinary and professional backgrounds interested in FLOSS attended the conference and provided thus a wide variety of viewpoints, approaches, methods, and topics.
For the first time a doctoral consortium was organised collocated with the conference. Within the doctoral consortium I presented the current concept of my doctoral thesis. I got very valuable feedback from the professors and many other conference participants, for which I am really grateful. While the proceedings of the conference where published by Springer, the proceedings of the doctoral consortium are openly accessible and can be downloaded here (2 MB). New publication: Raffl, Celina (2009). Innovation through Cooperation. Information and Communication Technology Assessment and Design for an Inclusive Society. In: Scacchi, Walt/Ven, Kris/Verelst, Jan (edts.). Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems [OSS 2009]. June 3-6, Skövde, Sweden [pp. 49-63]. Download the full book.
After the OSS 2009 conference I went from Stockholm to Vienna and attended for the 3rd time the TA'09, the 9th Congress on Technology Assessment. The congress was organised by the Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The topic of this year's conference questioned: "When TA", referring to the Collingridge Dilemma.
