Seminar on Open Source Evolution

SOS Evol 2012 is an informal international meeting gathering researchers interested in studying the evolution of libre and open source software.

The meeting is planned to start at 14.00 and the talks are intended to be 20 minutes long. The tentative presentation schedule is as follows:

• John Businge. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlandas.

  Co-evolution of Eclipse Framework and its Third-party Plug-ins

• Bogdan Vasilescu. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlandas.

  Geographical movement of mailing list participants

  Andrea Capiluppi. School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London.

  Wikipedia and Open Source Software: Tragedies and Opportunities

• Mathieu Goeminne Software Engineering Lab, Institut d'Informatique, University of Mons, Belgium.

  An empirical study on the specialisation effect in Open Source communities

• Javier Pérez. Software Engineering Lab, Institut d'Informatique, University of Mons, Belgium.

  SECONDA: A tool for exploring software ecosystems

• Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar. GSyC/LibreSoft, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.

  Global and Geographically Distributed Work Teams: Understanding the Bug Fixing Process and Potentially Bug-prone Activity Patterns

• Luis Cañas Díaz. GSyC/LibreSoft, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.

  A use case of source code cloning detection between two software projects with FLOSS tools

This seminar is partially supported by the Expert Center in Engineering and Quality of Systems (CEIQS) financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Wallonia.

To get directions, you can search the Brussels Transport Network (STIB) page, or the Belgian railway page. You can get to SOS-Evol 2012:

• by Tram, lines 7 and 25, stop VUB.
• by train, Etterbeek station (see www.b-rail.be for the time schedule)
• by Metro, either Metro Delta (10 minutes walk) or Metro Petillon (10-15 minutes walk) (see www.stib.be)

For acommodation. You can check hotel "Les Ecrins". This hotel is situated in the center of Brussels, close to the Sint-Kathelijne/Sainte-Catherine Square. Hotel staff speak Dutch, French and English; single rooms cost 85 euro per night.