TY - CHAP
T1 - Thoughts on studying open source software communities
AU - Feller, Joseph
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - This speculative paper offers a preliminary discussion of the academic study of open source software (OSS) communities. The paper includes (1) a description of the general growth of OSS research, (2) the argument that an understanding of OSS communities is critical to understanding OSS, (3) a review of the research to date which approaches OSS from a social or ethnographic viewpoint, and (4) an examination of one of the key issues to be addressed in future research on the subject.
AB - This speculative paper offers a preliminary discussion of the academic study of open source software (OSS) communities. The paper includes (1) a description of the general growth of OSS research, (2) the argument that an understanding of OSS communities is critical to understanding OSS, (3) a review of the research to date which approaches OSS from a social or ethnographic viewpoint, and (4) an examination of one of the key issues to be addressed in future research on the subject.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84904266140
U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-35489-7_25
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-35489-7_25
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84904266140
SN - 9781475763669
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 379
EP - 386
BT - Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Dev.
PB - Springer New York LLC
T2 - IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: The Social and Organizational Perspective
Y2 - 27 July 2001 through 29 July 2001
ER -