Workshop at ECSCW'07 accepted!

Our proposal for organising a workshop on The Challenges of Collaborative Work in Global Software Development at the ECSCW'07 conference was accepted and the call for participation is out!

Here's an excerpt from the call:

This one day workshop aims to bring together researchers studying different aspects of computer-supported cooperative work in Global Software Development(GSD).

Suggested topics include:

1. Conceptual understanding of work practices in GSD (issues related to collaboration, coordination, articulation work)
2. Project management in GSD (different models for organizing the work – from distributed teams through to outsourcing relationships and open source communities, cross-cultural issues, team selection, facilitation)
3. Social and behavioral studies of collaboration and coordination in GSD by individuals or teams
4. Collaborative software tools used in GSD:
- software configuration management, version control, bug tracking systems;
- communication tools (email, mailing lists, Instant Messaging, chats, electronic meeting room support, videoconferencing);
- blogs, wikis, social bookmarking;
- expertise finder and social networking applications;
- knowledge repositories: knowledge bases, experience databases, lessons learned repositories.

5. Case studies, experiences, examples of successful and unsuccessful GSD projects.

More information here.