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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 days ago
Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository
Social applications on the web let users track and follow the activities of a large number of others regardless of location or affiliation. There is a potential for this transpare...
Laura A. Dabbish, H. Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, J...
RE
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Open Source Requirements Engineering
This paper describes an experience in requirements engineering for an open source E-Learning tool selection. The process meets the challenges of software selection such as the int...
Barbara Paech, Bernd Reuschenbach
INFSOF
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Identifying knowledge brokers that yield software engineering knowledge in OSS projects
Much research on open source software development concentrates on developer lists and other software repositories to investigate what motivates professional software developers to...
Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angel...
AC
2007
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Free/Open Source Software Development: Recent Research Results and Methods
The focus of this chapter is to review what is known about free and open source software development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics,...
Walt Scacchi
CANDC
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Produsage
The increasing prevalence of user-led content production especially in online environments from the Wikipedia to open news publications and open source software development communi...
Axel Bruns
HICSS
2005
IEEE
126views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Exploring Usability Discussions in Open Source Development
The public nature of discussion in open source projects provides a valuable resource for understanding the mechanisms of open source software development. In this paper we explore...
Michael B. Twidale, David M. Nichols
APSEC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
CoxR: Open Source Development History Search System
In typical open source software development, developers use revision control systems for product management, mailing list systems for human communications, and bug tracking system...
Makoto Matsushita, Kei Sasaki, Katsuro Inoue
HICSS
2007
IEEE
130views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Analysis of Activity in the Open Source Software Development Community
— Open Source Software is computer software for which the source code is publicly open for inspection, modification, and redistribution. While research of a few, large, successf...
Scott Christley, Gregory R. Madey
HICSS
2008
IEEE
103views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia
—Wikipedia is one of the most successful examples of massive collaborative content development. However, many of the mechanisms and procedures that it uses are still unknown in d...
Felipe Ortega, Jesús M. González-Bar...
HICSS
2010
IEEE
182views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Analyzing Leadership Dynamics in Distributed Group Communication
—We apply social network analysis (SNA) to examine the dynamics of leadership in distributed groups, specifically Free/Libre Open Source Software development projects, and its r...
Kevin Crowston, Andrea Wiggins, James Howison