Open Source Software Competition Program
The ACM Multimedia Open-Source Software Competition celebrates the invaluable contribution of researchers and software developers who advance the field by providing the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, applications, and other multimedia software. This year will be the sixth year in running the competition as part of the ACM Multimedia program.
To qualify, software must be provided with source code and licensed in such a manner that it can be used free of charge in academic and research settings. For the competition, the software will be built from the sources. All source code, license, installation instructions and other documentation must be available on a public web page. Dependencies on non-open source third-party software are discouraged (with the exception of operating systems and commonly found commercial packages available free of charge). To encourage more diverse participation, previous years' non-winning entries are welcome to re-submit for the 2009 competition. Student-led efforts are particularly encouraged.
Authors are highly encouraged to prepare as much documentation as possible, including examples of how the provided software might be used, download statistics or other public usage information, etc. Entries will be peer-reviewed to select entries for inclusion in the conference program as well as an overall winning entry, to be recognized formally at ACM Multimedia 2009. The criteria for judging all submissions include broad applicability and potential impact, novelty, technical depth, demo suitability, and other miscellaneous factors (e.g., maturity, popularity, student-led, no dependence on closed source, etc.).
Authors of the winning entry, and possibly additional selected entries, will be invited to demonstrate their software as part of the conference program. In addition, accepted overview papers will be included in the conference proceedings.
Call for Open Source Software Competition (Expired)
ACM MM2009 Call for Open Source Software Competition can be found HERE.
Camera-ready Submission Instruction (Expired)
All ACM sponsored proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library as well as prepared for printed publication. All papers for the conference must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM specifications. Your electronic submission is due on or before the morning of July 27th (11:00 AM EST, NY time). Please submit as early as possible if you are able to do so. For more details about the camera-ready paper instruction, please refer to the following site: http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/mm.htm
Program
The program of Open Source Software Competition can be accessed via the Conference program.
Contact
For any questions regarding the open source competition please email the chair:
Dr. Apostol (Paul) Natsev (IBM Research) natsev -at- us.ibm.com
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