Subscriptions are open for Call for Papers to the 9º Internacional Free Software Forum, that will happen in April, 2008, days 17, 18 and 19, at the PUC-RS events center, in Porto Alegre city, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Papers proposals must be submitted until 12/15/2007, through papers system page (https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/papers/speaker/)

The program comitee defined 18 tracks for fisl9.0:

• Development: Database
• Development: Metodologies and tools
• Development: Java
• Development: Perl
• Development: Python
• Development: PHP
• Development: Ruby
• Kernel
• Admin (Security/Net/Telecom)
• Hardware and Embed Systems
• Free Software Ecosystem (Community/Filosofy/Social Aspects/Free Culture)
• Government and Public Software
• Education and Digital Inclusion
• Games and Multimedia
• Desktop
• Cases/Solutions
• Business (Products and Services)
• Emerging topics

General considerations:

Important Dates:

• 2008, January-11: end of submissions
• 2008, February-18: end of evaluations and proposers notification
• 2008, February-29: proposers confirmation
• 2008, April -17-19: FISL

As already presented, the lectures in fisl9.0 will be divided in tracks, the submission of proposals must indicate the track in which the proposal fits. Even though we tried to cover as much as possible, the description of the tracks might not subsume everything. Furthermore, if you fail to identify the track in which your proposal belongs through the descriptions, contact us

(programa2008 AT softwarelivre DOT org).

Please note that proposals submitted to the wrong track might not be accepted.
When you send a lecture proposal, consider that the available time for each lecture is 50 minutes (including questions), with resources such as: computers with GNU/Linux, projector, sound, (including the possibility of connection with a notebook). There will be made a few exceptions, and only those that do not represent a problem for the event itself. Therefore, if your idea of proposal does not fit as a lecture, do not send it as it is. Contact the event organization personnel for us to study whether it’s a possible proposal or not.

We are sorry to inform that the event can not supply any monetary help to the lecturers that had their proposals approved, seeing as the number of approved lecturers through call for papers is above 200 (two hundred). What’s inside our benefits possibilities is the participation free of subscription fee to the lecturers.

Tracks descriptions:

• Development (Database, Tools and Methodology, Java, Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby)
In this year this track was divided in seven others: Development: Database, Development: Tools and Methodology, Development: Java, Development: Perl, Development: Python, Development: PHP and Development: Ruby. The goal is having technical speeches focusing themes related to free software development. Programming languages, version control, development tools, industry patterns free implementations, free software development process and technical speeches about free databases. Besides integration with applications, maintenance, comparative degrees, performance, distributed databases, non-conventional database (for example, non-relational). Please ensure that you are putting your work inside the correct development subtrack.

• Kernel
Technical speeches about kernel in development. Kernel module development. Different free kernel architectures. Comparative degrees between different free kernels. Free kernel development cases for specific goals or architectures.

• Admin (Security/Network/Telecom)
Technique speeches about administration of free systems. Network services as MTA's, users and groups management, authentication, monitoring, web servers, storage, infrastructure, security tools, firewall, intrusion detection systems, systems security policy, operating systems management, package management, system services management, etc.

• Hardware and Embedded Systems
Speeches related to development and deploying free software in hardware and embedded systems, free execution platforms in embedded software (mobility). Free software adaptation for these architectures.

• Free Software Environment (Community/Philosophy/Social Issues/Free Culture)
This track is intended to group speeches for discussions about aspects related to free software economic sustainability, that is, a formation of a sustainable environment production and consume in the domain of logical sharing and about many aspects of free software social network. Political issues influences in adoption and development of free software by public and private organizations. Legal structure influence in deploying and developing free software by public and private institutions: licenses, trademarks, copy rights and owner rights. Economic aspects for debates in free software production. Free Software and Solidary Popular Economic. Model business for enterprises based in free software. Social projects related to the free software community developed by non-profit organizations, user groups, etc. Different types of organizations inside the free software community. User groups reporting their experiences and contributions to the advance of free software. Social consequences of the production model in free software. Relation between free software and other social manifests. Questions about the free software subject. Culture influence sharing experiences with the society.

• The government and public software
Public politics regarding development, migration, deployment, results and use of free software. Opinions concerning about the public software concept in the matter of proximity or distance to free software. Initiatives and infrastructure for collaboration by departments of federal, state and local direct or indirect administration.

• Education and social inclusion
Speeches about free software and the impact in people formation. Culture influence of free software community in education area and social inclusion projects. Free software and accessibility. Digital inclusion projects based in free software: planning, execution and results. Detention of free software by communities in social inclusion projects. Education for free software and free software for education: competition versus cooperation.

• Games and multimedia
This track aims to demonstrate the free software community advance in a unreached field for migration in domestic applications: free games. Speeches about techniques and game development tools using free software. Free games innovation. Free games community challenges. Technical speeches about the development and execution of multimedia contents with free software. Digital art using free software. Multimedia contents creation aided by free software tools and applications. Free platforms for multimedia contents execution.

• Desktop
Technical speeches about using free software in desktops designed to everyday tasks fulfilment, even professional or domestic environment. Desktop platforms. Applications for end users. Office automation. Internet utilities. Window Managers. Productivity tools. Special hardware platforms for desktops based in free software.

• Cases/Solutions
Presentation about success and failure cases in free software adoption by public and private organizations. Migration cases (planning, execution and results). Cases of organizations that became contributors to the community after adopting free software. Barriers and myths to migration.

• Business (Products/Services)
Presentation about products and services using free software by public and private organizations. The activities in this track have a different approach considering case tracks, environment and other cases, mainly because suggest offers or commercial relations involving free software.

• Emergent topics
Presentation of applications using buzzwords and new technologies (that do not fit the tracks above).

If you have any question, please get in touch with us through:

programa2008 AT softwarelimvre DOT org

Organizing Comitee
9th Fórum Internacional Software Livre
April, 17, 18 and 19, 2008

Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Centro de Eventos da PUCRS