The social structure of Open Source Software development teams

@inproceedings{citeulike:1090375, abstract = {Open Source Software development teams provide an interesting and convenient setting for studying distributed work. We begin by answering perhaps the most basic question: what is the social structure of these teams? Based on a social network analysis of interactions represented in 62,110 bug reports from 122 large and active projects, we find that some OSS teams are highly centralized, but contrary to expectation, others are not. Furthermore, we find that the level of centralization is...}, author = {Crowston, Kevin and Howison, James }, booktitle = {OASIS 2003 Workshop (IFIP 8.2 WG)}, citeulike-article-id = {1090375}, posted-at = {2008-05-28 22:43:20}, priority = {2}, title = {The social structure of Open Source Software development teams}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/581632.html}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1090375 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1090375 TI - The social structure of Open Source Software development teams T2 - OASIS 2003 Workshop (IFIP 8.2 WG) N2 - Open Source Software development teams provide an interesting and convenient setting for studying distributed work. We begin by answering perhaps the most basic question: what is the social structure of these teams? Based on a social network analysis of interactions represented in 62,110 bug reports from 122 large and active projects, we find that some OSS teams are highly centralized, but contrary to expectation, others are not. Furthermore, we find that the level of centralization is... AU - Crowston, Kevin AU - Howison, James PY - 2003/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/581632.html ER -