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Project Acronym: RISCOSS Project Title: Managing Risk and Costs in Open Source Software Adoption Project Number: 318249 Instrument: Collaborative Project - STREP Thematic Priority: FP7-ICT-2011-8 1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering D7.1.1 Dissemination Report WPm: <WP7> Task m.n: <T7.2, T7.3, T7.4, T7.5, T7.6> Due Date: <Continuous dissemination activities> Submission Date: <30/12/2013> Start Date of Project: 01/11/2012 Duration of Project: 36 months Deliverable Responsible: <UPC | TEI | FBK | UMM | CENATIC | XWiki | OW2 | KPA> Version: <1.0> Status: <Draft> Author(s): <Olivier Bouzereau> <OW2> <Angelo Susi> <FBK> <name> <UPC | TEI | FBK …> Reviewer(s): <name> [suggested] <UPC | TEI | FBK …> Dissemination level: PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission) Version history: © RISCOSS Consortium

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Project Acronym: RISCOSSProject Title: Managing Risk and Costs in Open Source Software Adoption

Project Number: 318249Instrument: Collaborative Project - STREP

Thematic Priority: FP7-ICT-2011-81.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced SoftwareEngineering

D7.1.1 Dissemination Report

WPm: <WP7>

Task m.n: <T7.2, T7.3, T7.4, T7.5, T7.6>

Due Date: <Continuous dissemination activities>

Submission Date: <30/12/2013>

Start Date of Project: 01/11/2012

Duration of Project: 36 months

Deliverable Responsible: <UPC | TEI | FBK | UMM | CENATIC | XWiki | OW2 | KPA>

Version: <1.0>

Status: <Draft>

Author(s): <Olivier Bouzereau> <OW2>

<Angelo Susi> <FBK>

<name> <UPC | TEI | FBK …>

Reviewer(s): <name> [suggested] <UPC | TEI | FBK …>

Dissemination level:PU Public X

PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission)

RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission)

CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission)

Version history:

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Ver. Date Comments/Changes Author/Reviewer

0.10 26/11/2012 Document structure agreed D. Ameller (UPC)

0.15 26/11/2012 Minor changes before distribution X. Franch (UPC)

0.20 28/11/2012 Added relation to other deliverables D. Ameller (UPC)

0.25 30/11/2012 Minor changes D. Ameller (UPC)

0.30 03/12/2012 Table style added D. Ameller (UPC)

0.31 03/12/2012 Logo image reduced D. Ameller (UPC)

0.32 06/12/2012 Table of tables List of tables, … D. Ameller (UPC)

0.40 05/05/2013 Instructions about formatting contents.

Styles improvements

L. Lopez (UPC)

0.5 22/10/2013 Scientific Dissemination A. Susi (FBK)

0.6 31/10/2013 Web, Events, Materials Dissemination O. Bouzereau (OW2)

1.0 24/12/2013 Section 4 and Section 5 updates O. Bouzereau (OW2)

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Contents

List of Figures............................................................................................................................... 5

List of Tables................................................................................................................................. 6

Abstract........................................................................................................................................ 7

1Introduction................................................................................................................................. 8

1.1Motivation.............................................................................................................................8

1.2Glossary of terms................................................................................................................. 8

1.3Intended audience................................................................................................................8

1.4Scope................................................................................................................................... 9

1.5Relation to other deliverables............................................................................................... 9

1.6Document structure.............................................................................................................. 9

2Target groups............................................................................................................................ 10

3Dissemination tools................................................................................................................... 11

3.1Graphic identity.................................................................................................................. 12

3.2RISCOSS Logo ................................................................................................................. 12

3.3Mailing lists........................................................................................................................ 12

3.4Website ............................................................................................................................. 13

3.5Private Wiki........................................................................................................................ 14

3.6Software and testing tools dissemination........................................................................... 15

3.7 Factsheet and Roll-Up Totem............................................................................................ 16

3.8 Social networks................................................................................................................. 18

4Dissemination activities............................................................................................................ 19

4.1RISCOSS events............................................................................................................... 19

4.2IT trade shows ................................................................................................................... 19

5RISCOSS Website statistics..................................................................................................... 22

5.1Audience............................................................................................................................ 22

5.2Content.............................................................................................................................. 23

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5.3Traffic origin....................................................................................................................... 24

5.4Traffic referrals................................................................................................................... 24

6Scientific Dissemination............................................................................................................ 26

6.1Scientific paper presented to conferences and workshops.................................................26

6.2Invited talks........................................................................................................................ 27

6.3Education initiatives: stages promoted under RISCOSS.................................................... 28

6.4Sponsorships..................................................................................................................... 28

6.5Plan for the upcoming scientific events.............................................................................. 28

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List of Figures

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List of Tables

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Abstract

Using diverse dissemination vectors, RISCOSS Project members are able to choose the rightand convenient tools for each of the target groups. The main dissemination tools used during thefirst year of the project are:

• Mailing lists

• Website and private wiki

• Shared agenda and Teleconferencing tools

• Factsheets, Roll-up Totems,

• Social networks (Twitter, Slideshare, LinkedIn Group, etc.)

• International trade shows (organization or participation)

• Scientific conferences

Some effective results:

• Sharing risk and cost management best practices among stakeholders

• Increasing awareness among European IT professionals, communities and associations

• Suggesting new business process and decision-making representations

More dissemination actions are now planned to extend these results, as detailed in Section 4and in the D7.1 Dissemination Plan report.

Target groups, dissemination tools and activities are detailed in Section 2 to 4.

This report presents web statistics regarding the Internet audience and online traffics, in Section5. Then, scientific dissemination is detailed in Section 6 and Annex.

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1 Introduction

A widespread dissemination of the RISCOSS project’s objectives and results isconsidered as crucial for the success of the project, as it will facilitate the latercommercial exploitation (market introduction) and a broad usage of the project’splatform.

1.1 Motivation

A multi-dimensional dissemination approach has been followed. Several communicationtools, adapted to the respective target groups, have been produced to disseminateproject results and to attract interest and necessary feedback/involvement from them.Also, the sharing of knowledge has been facilitated inside the Consortium to fosterworking efficiency and horizontal consistency of the project’s outputs. This documentoutlines the different actions completed to meet these objectives.

1.2 Glossary of terms

Add a 2-column table for the glossary like the following (Table).

Table 1: List of terms

Term Description

SocialMedia

a set of web-based and networks technologies offering an interactive platform forindividuals and communities to create, discuss and share user-generated content.

OSS Open Source Software

1.3 Intended audience

This document summarize the RISCOSS Project dissemination efforts, through aclassification of materials, services and events. When needed, links between theseelements are reminder to reveal the structure of dissemination actions.

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1.4 Scope

The scope of this document are the dissemination activities of the RISCOSS project inthe first reporting period.

1.5 Relation to other deliverablesThis document is the realization of the Dissemination Plan of the project, described inD7.1.

1.6 Document structure

Target groups, dissemination tools and activities are detailed in Section 2 to 4.Then, web statistics regarding the Internet audience and online traffics are provided inSection 5. Finally, scientific dissemination is detailed in Section 6 and Annex.

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2 Target groups

The following table provides a list of the target groups with the indication of the Partner(s) of theRISCOSS Consortium representing them or in any case significantly involved with them.

Table 2: Stakeholders and representatives in the RISCOSS Consortium

StakeholdersRepresented in RISCOSS by

Scientific communities UPC, UMM, FBKOpen Source communities OW2, XWikiInternational Standardisation Bodies OW2Policy makers and Public Administrations CENATICIndustrial communities (companies providing products, solutions, services) KPA, TEI, XWikiIT Managers and IT Security experts, IT Project Risk Managers CENATIC, KPA, TEIIT buyers in public/private organisations, Chief Financial Officers and cost killers CENATIC, KPA

The list will be kept up-to-date during the RISCOSS project lifecycle, according to the outcomesof services and WP evolution. Examples include WP5 with stakeholders related to Use Cases.

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3 Dissemination tools

Efficient dissemination requires making use of a variety of dissemination tools, with the right andconvenient selection of tools for each of the target groups. The dissemination tools include:

• Mailing lists

• Website and private wiki with blogs or user forums for technical discussions

• Shared agenda and Teleconferencing tools

• Factsheets, Posters, Roll-up Totems,

• Links to other European Projects, R&D centers, scientific organisations

• Social networks (Twitter, Slideshare, LinkedIn Group, etc.)

• International conferences (organisation or participation)

The RISCOSS disseminating activities are:

• Improving RISCOSS online visibility through smart content

• Improving RISCOSS awareness during trade shows

• Presenting RISCOSS approach, methodology and best practices

• Providing follow-up, recommendations and action plans

Some expected results:

• Optimizing European IT projects through adhoc open source components integration

• Sharing risk and cost management best practices among stakeholders

• Increasing awareness among European IT professionals, communities and associations

• Suggesting new business process and decision-making representations

• Providing worldwide market exploration and business opportunities to stakeholders

Planned dissemination:

• White papers, Leaflets

• Animated diagrams or video demonstrations of the RISCOSS Platform

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3.1 Graphic identity

A common graphic identity in all dissemination tasks allows for better visibility and recognition aswell as branding of the project. All dissemination tools and activities must refer to the name ofthe project, to the project’s website URL (http://www.riscoss.eu) and to the graphic elementsdescribed below.

3.2 RISCOSS Logo

The RISCOSS logo is used for any (internal or external) deliverable, report and disseminationtool. Variations of the logo (text only, monochrome) can be used if necessary.

The RISCOSS logo and its variations are broadly shared. They can be downloaded here, inseveral bitmap and vector file formats:

http://riscoss.eu/bin/view/Download/Dissemination_Materials

The FP7 and European Commission logos are also used for external deliverables, reports anddissemination tools. They can be found in the same section as the RISCOSS logos and are alsoembedded in RISCOSS template documents.

3.3 Mailing lists

A private mailing list was created by UPC, the UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA,to start the project, [email protected].

Then, several groups was created (Tech, Admin, Programming Rights) in the private Xwiki tosegment discussions in the consortium. In the future, it will be possible to create new mailing

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lists to answer each sub-project needs. To manage the groups in Riscoss private wiki, use thefollowing link (access rights needed):http://riscoss.projects.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/admin/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=globaladmin&section=Groups#|t=groupstable&p=1&l=10&wiki=local

3.4 Website

The RISCOSS website address www.riscoss.eu has been reserved by the consortium and isreferred to in all RISCOSS public documents and presentations

Main RISCOSS menu offers the following level 1 and level 2 items :

• [Home page]

• [Discover] > [Riscoss], [Use Cases]

• [Follow] > [Events], [Interviews], [Press Room]

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• [Download] > [Software], [Public Deliverables], [Publications], [Dissemination Materials]

• [About] > [Project Information], [Consortium], [Contact]

The website content is regularly updated through these sections:

• [Events],

• [Interviews],

• [Press Room],

• [Public Deliverables]

• [Publications]

3.5 Private Wiki

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The private website setup and management are provided by OW2.

The following contact address provides end-users support: [email protected] The Private Web is an xWiki instance with restricted access: http://riscoss.projects.ow2.org/

Simple and convenient content, users and groups management functions are provided by theopen source software xWiki. The Private Web is the primary tool for RISCOSS Project memberscollaboration. Il also serves as an internal use document repository. The project scheduling,reporting, document management and training tools reside in this private web.

A total of 785 private wiki spaces have been generated by 46 members distributed in 4 groups :

• 42 members are sharing the XWikiAllGroup

• 32 members are sharing the RISCOSSViewer group

• 14 members are sharing the XWikiAdminGroup

• 8 members have Programming Rights

3.6 Software and testing tools dissemination

The OW2 Technology Infrastructure might be used by RISCOSS project to host software andtesting tools produced by the work packages. Among OW2 IT managed services, RISCOSSproject members may also consider:

Bug tracker : A « RISCOSS project » can be setup on the JIRA platform instance managed by OW2. This project will only be accessible to Riscoss members.

OW2 Forge :

A « RISCOSS project » (private space) can be setup on OW2 http://forge.ow2.org, offering source code management tools like SVN.

For more information on the OW2 technology infrastructure, please visit:

http://www.ow2.org/view/IT_Infrastructure/Overview

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3.7 Factsheet and Roll-Up Totem

Factsheet and Roll-Up Totem have been designed to convey the project approach, objectives,key results and to highlight the RISCOSS Decision Support Platform.

The factsheet presents the goals of the project and a RISCOSS Platform diagram. The Roll-upTotem describes objectives, key results and the visual aspects of the RISCOSS Platform. Thecontent of both the factsheet and the Totem are clear and easily understandable by the targetgroups. The number of documents printed and distributed, for each event, are decided duringprior teleconference meetings. Additional Leaflets, Roll-up Totem or Posters might be designedand printed for specific events.

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RISCOSS Project FactsheetOctober 2013

RISCOSS Project Roll-up October 2013

Table 3: RISCOSS Project Factsheet and Roll-Up Totem

To download both documents: http://riscoss.eu/bin/view/Download/Dissemination_Materials

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3.8 Social networks

Accounts in social networks have been created for members. They are grouped in the upperright section of RISCOSS public website, using social networks respective icon.

Table 4: RISCOSS Project Social Networks

Social network Group ID URL

LinkedIn RISCOSS http://www.linkedin.com/groups?groupDashboard=&gid=4439700

Twitter Riscoss_eu http://twitter.com/RISCOSS_eu

Slideshare Riscoss-eu http://www.slideshare.net/riscoss-eu/

These social media contribute to the dissemination objectives mentioned in Introduction. Morechannels such as a Facebook or YouTube video channel, for instance, may appear in thecoming months.

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4 Dissemination activities

The results of RISCOSS are disseminated during national and international events, and

activities organized by the Consortium.

4.1 RISCOSS events

The list of RISCOSS events include:

• Regular demos in Conferences, exhibitions, IT trade show and Project Reviews

• Regular presentation during scientific conferences

• Yearly OW2 Conferences (starting 12 Nov. 2013)

• Presentations to professional organizations like Aetic in Spain, Syntec in France, Bitkom in Germany, Intellect in UK, EITO, etc.

The organization of these events will be coordinated by OW2. These events will be announced on all major event websites specifically targeting the various stakeholders.

The entire Consortium members are also announcing on their respective websites RISCOSS events.

4.2 IT trade shows

Regular presentations in conferences, exhibitions and IT trade shows are prepared and delivered. The Table 5 presents a list of such international events and conferences.

The Venues section of the private wiki could offer an up-to-date list of these events. RISCOSS members can find it here: http://riscoss.projects.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Venues

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Table 5: RISCOSS public events

Event Location 2013 issue

OSCON 2013: During five days, RISCOSS was presented to the largestOpen Source community event.

Portland,Ohio (USA) July 22-26

China National Computer Congress: OW2 organized one keynote, aworkshop with Trustie and a programming contest.

Changsha(China)

Oct 22-24

ICT 2013: "Future services to facilitate FLOSS development andadoption by European research and business communities", a sessionby MARKOS, OSSMETER, PROSE and RISCOSS EU Projects

Vilnius(Lithuania)

Nov. 6-8

RISCOSS Convention started the annual OW2 Conference with severalpresentations, a Proof of Concept in front of European experts creatingnew cooperation opportunities.

Paris(France)

Nov. 12-14

While ICT 2013 and the first RISCOSS Convention took place at the beginning of Year 2 of theproject, they have been prepared during the first year of RISCOSS. More related events can befound on the Events section of the website: http://www.riscoss.eu/bin/view/Events/WebHome

For scientific conferences, please read Section 6 of this document.

OSCON July 22-26, 2013. This 5 days convention in Portland, Ohio is dedicated to open source and innovative projects. RISCOSS was presented there, to the largest Open Source community event.

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China National Computer Congress Oct 22-24, 2013. OW2 CEO Cédric Thomas gave a keynote presentation titled: “Is Cloud Computing Open Source Friendly?".

A workshop with Trustie, China's largest project for trustworthy OSS discovery and integration was offered.

Finally, OW2 and Scilab co-organized a Programming Contest during this 3 days convention in Changsha, China.

RISCOSS Convention in Paris, November 12 2013, gave Xavier Franch and Angelo Susi an opportunity to explain the project and to give a Proof of Concept in front of European experts. Alessandra Bagnato (OSSMETER) provided details about automated measurement and analysis of open source software. The open discussion with international invited experts raised several cooperation opportunities. A video of Xavier Franch presentation is also published on the RISCOSS website here: http://www.riscoss.eu/bin/view/Events/OW2con13_November_12_14_Paris_France.

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5 RISCOSS Website statistics

5.1 AudienceThe RISCOSS Web site is the main communication vehicle to discover the services of theconsortium. It allows the visitor to follow the results and also events where RISCOSS membersare actively participating.

Figure 1 below provides statistics about site visits between 12 Dec. 2012 and 12 Dec. 2013. Asdepicted, with 638 unique visitors, 4 new visitors on 10, 5 pages per visit and 4':34” average visittime, the Web site clearly reaches beyond the direct participants in the projects. Numbers ofvisits in December 2012, then June 2013 and September 2013 show spikes corresponding toRISCOSS members meetings and periods when we advertised the project in preparation ofindustry or open source-oriented events. Such events have a positive impact on thedissemination of RISCOSS.

Figure 1 – Visits of the RISCOSS public website, showing 39% of new visitors

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5.2 Content

Visitors are viewing on average 5 pages with an average visit duration of 4:34 minutes.

The diagram depicted in Figure 2 shows that the most visited pages are the RISCOSShomepage (29.2%), events (6.0%), discover page (4,5%), followed by Interviews (4.2%) andproject consortium (4.2%) .

Figure 2 – Top 10 RISCOSS public website contents

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5.3 Traffic originThe geographical origin of the visits, as illustrated in Figure 3, reveal a global interest regardingthe RISCOSS project, in Europe, North America and Mediterranean countries. France drives thelargest part of the traffic to riscoss.eu (42,3%) followed by Italy, Spain, Israel, Germany(respectively 15,7%, 14.8%, 6.32% and 2.54%). The Netherlands, United States, UK, Romaniaand Belgium are also present in the top 10.

Figure 3 – RISCOSS public website traffic by country

5.4 Traffic referrals

As outlined in Figure 4, the Web traffic is coming from the RISCOSS members websites and,interestingly enough, from social media Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Social Media and UPC are now the first source of website new visitors.

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Figure 4 – RISCOSS public website traffic referrals

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6 Scientific Dissemination

In the first year of the RISCOSS project we mainly focused our scientific dissemination in theparticipation to software engineering conferences and in workshops particularly related to themain research areas of the project such as risks and goal modeling and reasoning, statisticalrisk assessment and search based approaches.

Several activities have been promoted spanning from the presentation of scientific papers, to theparticipation to expert panels with the purpose of promoting the themes of the project, to thepromotion of stages about RISCOSS for interested students. In the following we detail theseactivities and present the objectives for the next future.

6.1 Scientific paper presented to conferences and workshops

Two papers have been presented in the first year of the project. A first paper has been publishedin the proceedings of ICSOFT, the International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, asecond one to the i* workshop. The first paper allowed us to present RISCOSS to the generalsoftware engineering community, the second one to start presenting specific technical detailsand solutions about goal modeling techniques for the representation of OSS ecosystems to amore specific audience.

Paper at ICSOFT Conference

The paper titled “Managing Risk in Open Source Software Adoption” [1] has been published inthe proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications1,in Reykjavik, Iceland on July 29-31, 2013. The ICSOFT conference has a practical focus onsoftware engineering and applications and the paper we presented is a sort of “manifesto” of theRISCOSS project to state its objectives and its connection to the software engineering practice.

Paper at the i* workshop

The paper titled “Using i* to Represent OSS Ecosystems for Risk Assessment” [2] has beenpublished in the proceedings of the 6th edition of the i* workshop2 that has been held inconjunction with CAiSE, the Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, onJune 17, 2013 in Valencia, Spain. The paper is a research preview about the use of i* models forunderstanding the strategic perspective of OSS ecosystems, representing actors, intentionaldependencies and responsibilities, for risk analysis and assessment purposes.

1Visit also http://www.icsoft-pt.org/?y=2013

2Visit also http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~istar13/

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6.2 Invited talks

Several invited talks have been given by the members of RISCOSS to promote the project andto explore possible synergies with other research lines and groups around the world.

Talk at NYU Center for Risk Engineering

Ron S. Kenett - President, the Israel Statistical Association, Research Professor, University ofTurin, Italy, Chairman and CEO, the KPA Group - presented the talk “Financial and RiskApplications of InfoQ” during the Topfer Chair Lecture Series at NYU at the Center for RiskEngineering, on September 24th, 2012.

Talk at the University College of London - CREST workshop

During the 25th CREST Open Workshop3 held in the University College of London on February11th-12th, 2013, Angelo Susi presented a survey about “interactive search based techniques”and their possible application in the risk assessment and decision making phase of RISCOSSproject.

Talk at the Ben-Gurion University

During the Ben-Gurion University Israel conference4 in May 28th, 2013, software quality andtesting issues have been debated by leaders in Industry and Academia. Ron S. Kenett detailedRISCOSS project intentions and expected results.

Talk at the i* workshop

The International i* Workshop (iStar) is the event of reference for the community that worksaround the i* framework, which plays a central role in the RISCOSS technological solution. Dr.Lidia López presented there the paper “Using i* to represent OSS ecosystems for riskassessment”, joint work of the UPC and FBK teams. Other members of the consortium attendedthe workshop and disseminated the RISCOSS project.

Talk at the University of Stavanger

Ron S. Kenett presented RISCOSS project intentions and expected results in the EU-China-Nord America workshop on HPC Cloud and Big Data5, held at the University of Stavanger inNorway on June 20th, 2013.

3Visit also http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cow/25/

4Visit also http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/engn/ise/QT/Pages/key-speakers.aspx

5Visit also http://euchina2013.cloudcom.org

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Talk at the Requirements Engineering Conference

The International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) endorsed by IEEE6, is the world-leading conference in the requirements engineering discipline, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil inJuly, 15th-19th, 2013. Prof. Xavier Franch was invited to participate in a mini-tutorial “PracticalApplication of i* in Industry: The State of the Art”. The i* framework is one of the technologicalartifacts used in the RISCOSS project, and its use for modeling OSS ecosystems was reportedin the mini-tutorial.

Talk at Bar Ilan University

Ron S. Kenett presented the talk “On Information Quality (InfoQ)” during the BusinessAdministration Colloquium at Bar Ilan University, on October 22th, 2013. The talk also introducedand discussed the main objectives of RISCOSS.

6.3 Education initiatives: stages promoted under RISCOSS

Since several years Fondazione Bruno Kessler promotes a series of summer internships for thehigh school students in the Province of Trento, in Italy. In this context, two students of the“Istituto Antonio Pilati” in Cles, had the possibility to study topics related to RISCOSS, inparticular the OSS risk modeling language and reasoning techniques, during their stage onAugust 2013. The students reported on the experience in a presentation to the other studentsand to the teachers of their school on October 16th, 2013.

6.4 Sponsorships

RISCOSS sponsored the fifth edition of the Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering(SSBSE’13)7 dedicated to the application of meta-heuristic optimization techniques to varioussoftware engineering problems, ranging from requirements engineering to software testing andmaintenance. Search based approaches are candidate techniques for risks assessment andmitigation in RISCOSS. The symposium has been co-located with ESEC/FSE 2013 Conferencein St. Petersburg, Russia, from 24th to 26th of August 2013.

6.5 Plan for the upcoming scientific events

In the next future we plan to submit scientific papers, proposals for workshops and tutorial toConferences and proposals for book chapters in the software engineering area, in the moregeneral computer science areas and in the statistical area.

Here in the following we report the list of the upcoming events we aim at addressing.

6Visit http://www.re2013.inf.puc-rio.br/pages/main.php?id=page_home

7Visit also http://ssbse.org/2013/

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Table 6 : Workshops and tutorial proposals - upcoming submission deadlines

Conference Deadline Dates Place Topic Partners

ICSE'1423 October 2013 31 May –

7 June 2014Hyderabad, India

Workshop proposal on risk analysis for OSS projects

COMPSAC'14 - workshop

15 November 2014 July 21-25, 2014 Vasteras, Sweden

Workshop proposal on data analysis and OSS ecosystems modelling for risk management

OSS'1416 November 2013 6-9 May 2014 Costa Rica Workshop proposal about

OSS project risk management

Table 7 : Upcoming conferences deadlines

Conference Deadline Dates Place Topic Partners

OSS’14 16 November 2013 6-9 May 2014 Costa RIca - UMM

ICSE-NIER'14

22 November 2013 31 May – 7 June 2014

Hyderabad,India

Paper about connectingbusiness aspects andsoftware engineeringoperational aspects for OSSrisk assessment

UPC, FBK,UMM, KPA

CAiSE'14

29 November 2013 16-20 June 2014 Thessaloniki,Greece

Paper about Modeling andApplying OSS BusinessStrategies: A Pattern-BasedApproach

UPC, FBK,KPA, UMM

EASE'14

12 February 2014 13-14 May 2014 London, UK Paper about empirical studyin the project (e.g., thestatistical analysis of theconnection between risk,risks indicators and OSScommunity measures)

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COMPSAC'14- scientificpapers

Abs.: 13 January 2014Full: 31 January 2014

July 21-25, 2014 Vasteras,Sweden

Paper about Statisticalanalysis of OSS and OSScommunities

KPA, UPC,FBK

ICSOFT-EA’14

18 March 2014 29-31 August 2014 Vienna,Austria

Paper about connectingbusiness aspects andsoftware engineeringoperational aspects for OSSrisk assessment

UMM,UPC, FBK,KPA

BPM’14Abs.: 14 March 2014Full: 21 March 2014

7-11 September , 2014

Haifa, Israel To Be Decided UMM

ER’14 N/A N/A Atlanta, USA Paper about the descriptionof the Modelling concepts forrisk management in OSS

UPC, FBK

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ecosystems

HICSS'15 - scientific papers

N/A January 5-8, 2015 Kauai, Hawaii, USA

To Be Decided UPC

Table 8 : Chapter proposals

Book Chapter Dead. proposal Dead chapter Publisher Topic

Analyzing Software Data

15 October 2013 28 February 2014 initial submission

Morgan Kaufmann

General overview of risk management in OSS with special emphasis on data related issues

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Annex A. References

1. Xavier Franch, Angelo Susi, Maria C. Annosi, Claudia Ayala, Ruediger Glott, Daniel Gross, Ron Kenett,Fabio Mancinelli, Pop Ramsamy and Cedric Thomas, David Ameller, Stijn Bannier, Nili Bergida, YehudaBlumenfeld, Olivier Bouzereau, Dolors Costal, Manuel Dominguez, Kirsten Haaland, Lidia López, MirkoMorandini, Alberto Siena: Managing Risk in Open Source Software Adoption. ICSOFT 2013.

2. Claudia P. Ayala, Xavier Franch, Lidia López, Mirko Morandini, Angelo Susi: Using i* to Represent OSSEcosystems for Risk Assessment. iStar 2013: 73-78

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