Inside an Open Source Software Community: Empirical Analysis on Individual and Group Level
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2004-01-01
Author(s)
Abstract
An established Open Source Software community (Apache Cocoon) was explored using an online questionnaire about demographic data and individual and group-related factors. Individual factors encompassed forms of contributions, motivation, expertise and knowledge. Role structures, expectations towards other members, trust and collaboration issues were analysed at group level. More than 60% of the developer community completed this questionnaire. Results provide a valuable basis for deeper understanding of knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation processes in distributed work groups
Funding(s)
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Publisher place
Washington, DC, USA
Event Title
4th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering at 26th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004)
Event Location
Edinburgh, UK
Event Date
23.-28.05.2004
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
12837
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Individuals-Collab-Comm in OSS 10.pdf
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