Most empirical studies of peer production have focused on the final products of these efforts (such as software in Free/Open Source projects), but there are also many other knowle...
Margaret S. Elliott, Mark S. Ackerman, Walt Scacch...
1 Shared understandings are important for software development as they guide to effective individual contributions to, and coordination of, the software development process. In thi...
Barbara Scozzi, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz Eseryel, ...
In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the “core team”. The stability and permanenc...
Software evolution research has recently focused on new development paradigms, studying whether laws found in more classic development environments also apply. Previous works have...
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,...