Call for Nominations
For many years, the MSR community has leveraged public data from FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) projects. MSR researchers have, to a lesser extent, “given back” to FOSS communities, with research results and tools that can be used by FOSS practitioners to work better and produce even more free/open source software.
The MSR “FOSS Impact” Award is meant to encourage MSR research that gives back to FOSS, by recognizing papers that have a positive, concrete impact on FOSS development and communities.
Authors of accepted MSR papers can self-nominate their contributions for the FOSS Award. Self-nominations will be evaluated by the FOSS Award Committee, solely on the basis of actual impact on FOSS (the quality of the nominated papers has already been assessed as part of their acceptance in other MSR tracks).
FOSS Award winners will be announced at MSR.
How to Self-nominate for the FOSS Award
Any MSR paper accepted in the following tracks can self-nominate for the FOSS Award: Technical Papers, Data and Tool Showcase, Industry.
To self-nominate, authors will submit the camera-ready version of their accepted papers to the FOSS Award track in HotCRP (link below). Links to the relevant artifacts (e.g., source code, datasets, replication packages, etc.) should appear in the paper, for ease of inspection by the FOSS Award Committee.
Together with the paper, authors will submit (as free-form text in HotCRP) a rationale for the self-nomination. This rationale should highlight how the paper has already been (preferably) or could be in the future positively impactful on one or more FOSS communities.
Submission
Self-nominations shall be submitted via the HotCRP at: https://msr2025-foss.hotcrp.com
Important Dates
- Self-nomination opens: February 5th, 2025
- Self-nomination closes: February 19th, 2025
- Award(s) announcement: at the conference
Recipients
The awarded papers will be announced at MSR. They could be one or more papers, but the Award could also be declared void.