The “Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development” workshop series will be based on the growing interest of researchers and practitioners in Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). The first workshop will be specifically focused on discussing the phenomenon of global FLOSS development and how to improve collaboration and the communication of results between researchers, practitioners and FLOSS communities. For this purpose, the overarching theme of this year’s workshop is “Feeding Back the Communities”. Its goal is to bring together academic researchers, industry members and FLOSS developers and to discuss crossfertilization of results on FLOSS research and practice.