FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FREENIX) TRACK—CALL FOR PAPERS
FREENIX is the USENIX Annual Technical Conference's forum on free and open
source software. The FREENIX Program Committee is looking for papers
providing practical and/or academic insight.
FREENIX is an excellent showcase for the latest developments in and
interesting applications of free and open source software. Any project with
a focus on software that is redistributable in source-code form and
available online is a good candidate for a FREENIX submission. (Submissions
focusing on proprietary software will not be accepted.) Projects that,
while not yet 100% finished, anticipate release in the near term are also
good candidates for FREENIX.
Submission of any sort of free and open source software-related work is
encouraged, including:
- Project reports
- Academic studies and relevant theory
- Usage and development experiences, both successful and unsuccessful
The emphasis of a FREENIX submission should be on clearly communicating
important and technically interesting software ideas to
a broad audience.
While the full range of submissions will be gratefully accepted, FREENIX
2004 will have special emphasis on two related areas:
- Userland Applications and Systems Development:
- Desktop applications
- Peer-to-peer and Web-based systems
- Libraries, toolkits, and infrastructure
- Scripting languages and applications
- Programming languages and systems
- Novel algorithms and applications
- System management tools
- Software development tools
- Print systems
- Free and Open Source Software Engineering:
- Project-centric (papers about a particular project)
- Software specification and design methodologies
- Novel implementation techniques
- Testing
- Deployment
- Reliability and security
- Performance and scalability
- Process-centric (papers about development methodologies)
- Team governance, administration, and management
- Planning and forecasting
- Measuring progress and assessing quality
- Integrating tools and methodologies
Submission of relevant work in these areas is especially encouraged.
In addition, we welcome submissions on a wide variety of topics, including:
- Documentation
- Embedded systems
- Graphical user interface tools
- Current examples of development and management of free software
- Interesting deployments of free software
- Large-scale system management
- Nontechnical aspects of free software: business, legal, etc.
- Security
- Software development tools
- System and user management tools
- Technical aspects of commercial use of free software
FREENIX submissions will be judged based on the extent to which they express
interesting, useful, thought-provoking, and/or novel work. Ideas should be
presented in a form suitable for consumption by people with a wide range of
technical abilities and backgrounds.
One purpose of FREENIX is to strongly encourage first-time authors,
including students, non-academic professionals, and amateur developers, to
share their experiences. If you have something to share, you should begin
thinking about writing a paper right now; a common mistake is to delay too long. If you would like help or comments on your paper idea, please feel
free to email freenix04chairs@usenix.org.
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