Virtual communities have become an important new organizational form and yet relatively little is known about the conditions which lead to their success. In an attempt to address ...
Some of the most interesting differences between Open Source Software (OSS) development and commercial colocated software development lie in the communication and collaboration pr...
Koji Yatani, Eunyoung Chung, Carlos Jensen, Khai N...
Open Source Software (OSS) projects provide a unique opportunity to gather and analyze publicly available historical data. The Postgres SQL server, for example, has over seven yea...
Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Premkumar T. Devanbu...
The usability of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) is a new challenge for HCI professionals. Although HCI professionals are working on usability issues in FLOSS, the CHI com...
Software is typically improved and modified in small increments (we refer to each of these increments as a modification record--MR). MRs are usually stored in a configuration manag...