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Open Source Software for Social Good (OSS4SG) projects aim to address critical societal challenges, such as healthcare access and community safety. Understanding the community dynamics and contributor patterns in these projects is essential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohamed Ouf , Shayan Noei , Zeph Van Iterson , Mariam Guizani , Ying Zou

Open-source software (OSS) is widely spread in industry, research, and government. OSS represents an effective development model because it harnesses the decentralized efforts of many developers in a way that scales. As OSS developers work…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-24 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs , Vito D. P. Servedio , Stefan Thurner , Vittorio Loreto

Understanding the collective social behavior of software developers is crucial to model and predict the long-term dynamics and sustainability of Open Source Software (OSS) communities. To this end, we analyze temporal activity patterns of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Lisi Qarkaxhija , Maximilian Capraro , Stefan Menzel , Bernhard Sendhoff , Ingo Scholtes

One of the primary factors that encourage developers to contribute to open source software (OSS) projects is the collaborative nature of OSS development. However, the collaborative structure of these communities largely remains unclear,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Alexander Agroskin , Elena Lyulina , Sergey Titov , Vladimir Kovalenko

The social community in open source software developers has a complex network structure. The network structure represents the relations between the project and the engineer in the software developer's community. A project forms some teams…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Takumi Ichimura , Takuya Uemoto

Software quality assurance has been a heated topic for several decades, but relatively few analyses were performed on open source software (OSS). As OSS has become very popular in our daily life, many researchers have been keen on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Jie Xu , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Danny Ho

The success of an open source software (OSS) project requires effective communication among its members. Given that OSS projects often have established social status systems, much communication may happen between individuals of different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yisi Han , Zhendong Wang , Yang Feng , Zhihong Zhao , Yi Wang

In this paper, we use evidence from a remixing community to evaluate two pieces of common wisdom about collaboration. First, we test the theory that jointly produced works tend to be of higher quality than individually authored products.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Benjamin Mako Hill , Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Social Coding Sites (SCSs) are social media services for sharing software development projects on the Web, and many open source projects are currently being developed on SCSs. One of the characteristics of SCSs is that they provide a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Yuya Yoshikawa , Tomoharu Iwata , Hiroshi Sawada

A number of software foundations have been created as legal instruments to better articulate the structure, collaboration and financial model of Open Source Software (OSS) projects. Some examples are the Apache, Linux, or Mozilla…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo , Jordi Cabot

Open source software (OSS) has been playing a fundamental role in not only information technology but also our social lives. Attracted by various advantages of OSS, increasing commercial companies take extensive participation in open source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xuetao Li , Yuxia Zhang , Cailean Osborne , Minghui Zhou , Zhi Jin , Hui Liu

Motivation - This research aims at investigating emerging roles and forms of participation fostering design-use mediation during the Open Source Software design process Research approach - We compare online interactions for a successful…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-10-10 Flore Barcellini , Françoise Détienne , Jean-Marie Burkhardt

The widespread adoption of open source libraries and frameworks can be attributed to their licensing. Open Source Software Licenses (OSS licenses) ensure that software can be sold or distributed as part of aggregate programs from various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Raula Gaikovina Kula , Brittany Anne Reid , Christoph Treude

The development of open source software (OSS) is a broad field which requires diverse skill sets. For example, maintainers help lead the project and promote its longevity, technical writers assist with documentation, bug reporters identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jenny T. Liang , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

Open Source Software (OSS) has been recognized by the software development community as an effective way to deliver software. Unlike traditional software development, OSS development is driven by collaboration among developers spread…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Bianca Minetto Napoleão , Fabio Petrillo , Sylvain Hallé

The use of free and open source software is gaining momentum due to the ever increasing availability and use of the Internet. Organizations are also now adopting open source software, despite some reservations in particular regarding the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Faheem Ahmed , Piers Campbell , Ahmad Jaffar , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Background: Open Source Software (OSS) started as an effort of communities of volunteers, but its practices have been adopted far beyond these initial scenarios. For instance, the strategic use of OSS in industry is constantly growing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Johan Linåker , Björn Lundell , Francisco Servant , Jonas Gamalielsson , Sachiko Muto , Gregorio Robles

When inspiring software developers to contribute to open source software, the act is often referenced as an opportunity to build tools to support the developer community. However, that is not the only charge that propels contributions --…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Yu Huang , Denae Ford , Thomas Zimmermann

The proliferation of Open Source Software (OSS) adoption and collaboration has surged within industry, resulting in its ubiquitous presence in commercial offerings and shared digital infrastructure. However, in the public sector, both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Johan Linåker , Gregorio Robles , Deborah Bryant , Sachiko Muto

Open-source is a decentralized and collaborative method of development that encourages open contribution from an extensive and undefined network of individuals. Although commonly associated with software development (OSS), the open-source…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kathy Cheng , Shurui Zhou , Alison Olechowski