Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects are people-oriented and knowledge intensive
software development environments. Many researchers focused on mailing lists to study …

Abstract Context Open Source Software (OSS) development is a knowledge focused activity
which relies heavily on contributors who can be volunteers or paid workers and are …

In this chapter we summarize the latest results from an ongoing study examining Free/Open
Source Software (F/OSS) Development communities as self-organizing systems. Using …

Much research on open source software development concentrates on developer lists and
other software repositories to investigate what motivates professional software developers to …

Purpose–This paper aims to add to the understanding of knowledge sharing in online
communities through an investigation of the relationship between individual participant's …

To date, there is no investigation of knowledge reuse in open source software projects. This
paper focuses on the forms of knowledge reuse and the factors impacting on them. It …

This paper furthers inquiry into the social structure of free and open source software
(FLOSS) teams by undertaking social network analysis across time. Contrary to …

We suggest, therefore, that it is wrong to assume that FLOSS projects are distinguished by a
particular social structure merely because they are FLOSS. Our findings suggest that FLOSS …

Established contributors are the backbone of many free/libre open source software (FLOSS)
projects. Previous research has shown that it is critically important for projects to retain …

This article introduces a special issue of Software Process—Improvement and Practice
focusing on processes found in free or open source software development (F/OSSD) …