: This paper contributes to the identification and testing of factors important for the success of open source software (OSS) projects. We present an analysis of OSS communities as...
This paper describes work in progress on how to build open source communities. The proposed approach is based on exploiting existing social software communities and applications t...
Open Source Software (OSS) has attracted enormous media and research attention since the term was coined in February 1998. The concept itself is founded on the paradoxical premise...
Motivation – This research aims at investigating emerging roles and forms of participation fostering design-use mediation during the Open Source Software design process Research...
The aim of the paper is to identify and discuss major challenges for OSS from an HCI perspective, so as to aid the adoption and development processes for end-users, developers and ...