Travel Support for the Open Source Systems 2016 Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金将支持来自美国高等院校的大约4名有前途的研究生参加博士联盟（研讨会），该研讨会将于2016年5月30日至6月2日在瑞典哥德堡举行的第12届开源系统国际会议上共同举办。学生将通过竞争性的公开选拔，并注意培养多样化的与会者群体。该联盟的学生将与其他学生和杰出的研究教师作为导师集中讨论他们的研究课题，然后参加会议，以进一步加深他们与当前研究和活跃研究人员的接触。在过去的二十年里，人们对自由软件和开放源码软件（FLOSS）技术的兴趣和传播有了巨大的增长，这改变了组织和个人创建、获取和分发软件和基于软件的服务的方式。该博士联盟将向学生提供反馈，以便对FLOSS现象进行更高质量和更相关的研究。通常情况下，只有一个或几个学生在任何特定的大学部门将FLOSS作为一个研究课题，这减少了这些学生与其他人分享类似的研究重点互动的机会。一个有重点的博士联盟可以非常有利于这些学生试图发展和完善他们的论文研究思路。一个长期的预期效益是发展智力联系，这将改善形成学生论文的学科研究，并提供一个网络，以支持未来的跨学科研究项目。

This funding will support attendance by approximately 4 promising graduate students from U.S. institutions of higher learning at a doctoral consortium (workshop) to be co-located with the 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems, May 30 through June 2, 2016, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Students will be selected through a competitive open call, with attention paid to developing a diverse group of attendees. Students in the consortium will have a day of focused discussion of their research topics with other students and distinguished research faculty as mentors, followed by attendance at the conference to further deepen their engagement with current research and active researchers. The last two decades have witnessed a tremendous growth in the interest and diffusion of Free/libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) technologies, which has changed the way organizations and individuals create, acquire and distribute software and software-based services. This doctoral consortium will provide feedback to students in order to develop higher quality and more relevant research on the FLOSS phenomenon. It is often the case that only one or a few students in any particular university department will have FLOSS as a research topic, which diminishes the opportunities for these students to interact with others sharing a similar research focus. A focused doctoral consortium can be extremely beneficial to such students trying to develop and refine their dissertation research ideas. A longer-term expected benefit is the development of intellectual connections that will improve the disciplinary research that forms the students' theses, and also provide a network to support future interdisciplinary research projects.