OpenSym is a shorthand for International Symposium on Open Collaboration, formerly International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, also formerly WikiSym or the Wiki Symposium, a conference dedicated to
wiki
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research and practice. In 2014, the name of the conference was changed from WikiSym to OpenSym to reflect a broadening of scope from wiki and
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...
research and practice to open collaboration research, including wikis and Wikipedia research, but also free/libre/ open source,
open data
Open data is data that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose. Open data is licensed under an open license.
The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other "open(-source)" movement ...
, etc. research. The conference series is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and its proceedings are published in the
ACM Digital Library
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...
.
Overview of conferences, 2005–present
History
; WikiSym 2005
WikiSym 2005 was co-located with ACM
OOPSLA
OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications) is an annual ACM research conference. OOPSLA mainly takes place in the United States, while the sister conference of OOPSLA, ECOOP, is typically held in Europe. It is opera ...
2005, held in
San Diego
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Google
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. Conference chair was Dirk Riehle.
; WikiSym 2006
WikiSym 2006 was co-located with ACM Hypertext 2006 from 21–23 August 2006 in
Odense
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, Denmark. Invited speakers included Angela Beesley ("How and Why Wikipedia Works"), Doug Engelbart and Eugene Eric Kim ("The Augmented Wiki"), Mark Bernstein ("Intimate Information: organic hypertext structure and incremental formalization for everyone's everyday tasks"), and Ward Cunningham ("Design Principles of Wiki: How can so little do so much?"). Conference chair was Dirk Riehle and program chair was James Noble.
; WikiSym 2007
WikiSym 2007 was co-located with
OOPSLA
OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications) is an annual ACM research conference. OOPSLA mainly takes place in the United States, while the sister conference of OOPSLA, ECOOP, is typically held in Europe. It is opera ...
Montreal
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, Quebec, Canada on 21–23 October 2007. Invited speakers were Jonathan Grudin and Ward Cunningham. Conference chair was Alain Désilets and program chair was Robert Biddle.
; WikiSym 2008
WikiSym 2008 was held in
Porto
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,
Portugal
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Dan Ingalls
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Fernanda Viegas
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Brion Vibber
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. The symposium chair was
Dirk Riehle
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of
University of Erlangen
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Georgia Tech
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.
; WikiSym 2010
WikiSym 2010 was held in Gdańsk, Poland on 7–9 July 2010, co-located with
Wikimania
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, f ...
Mountain View, California
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Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the ...
Google
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. The symposium chair was J. Felipe Ortega and the program chair was Andrea Forte.
; WikiSym 2012
WikiSym 2012 was held in
Linz
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In 2009, it was a European Capital ...
, Austria, on 27–29 August 2012.
; WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
Setting a definition of "open collaboration", WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 was held in Hong Kong on 5–7 Aug 2013. The symposium general co-chair includes Ademar Aguiar and
Dirk Riehle
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.
; OpenSym 2014
The conference in Berlin from 27–29 August featured "multiple traditional research tracks and a community program geared towards industry and practitioner interests".
; OpenSym 2015
OpenSym 2015, the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, was held in San Francisco on August 19–21, 2015. Research submissions revolved around IT-driven open innovation, open data, free/libre/open source software etc. Academic keynotes were taken by Robert J. Glushko of
UC Berkeley
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and Anthony I. Wasserman of CMU (
Silicon Valley
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). Industry (research) keynotes were taken by Richard P. Gabriel of IBM and Peter Norvig of
Google
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.
; OpenSym 2016
OpenSym 2016, the 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, took place in Berlin, Germany, on August 17–19, 2016. Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman served as general chair. Keynote speakers were Adam Blum, Luis Falcón Martín,
Leslie Hawthorn
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Wikimania
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, f ...
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Wiki Indaba
Wiki Indaba is an official conference of the Wikimedia Foundation with interest in African content. Topics of presentation and dialogue include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, free knowledge, free content ...