The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together participants from the research community as well as
software industry in order to explore both the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in global software development (GSD). Increased globalization of software development creates software engineering challenges due to the impact of temporal, geographical and cultural differences, and requires the development of methods and technologies to address these issues. This workshop is being organized to foster interaction between practitioners and researchers in order to address the pressing issues in this area. Practitioners experiencing challenges in GSD will share their concerns and successful solutions and learn from research about current investigations. Researchers addressing GSD will gain a better understanding of the key issues facing practitioners and share their work in progress with others in the field.