TY - GEN
T1 - Software collaboration networks
AU - Zachor, Christopher
AU - Gunes, Mehmet Hadi
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The need to work together with others on large projects has been emphasized with industrialization. As the software industry grew, it should be no surprise that communities to serve this purpose appeared. With the creation of websites such as Sourceforge.net, Github.com, and Freshmeat.net developers from around the world are able to collaborate on open source projects. This paper will attempt to extend previous studies of software collaboration networks through the use of network analysis. Examining Sourceforge.net, we analyze this community of developers who have contributed greatly to open source software despite not being paid to do so.
AB - The need to work together with others on large projects has been emphasized with industrialization. As the software industry grew, it should be no surprise that communities to serve this purpose appeared. With the creation of websites such as Sourceforge.net, Github.com, and Freshmeat.net developers from around the world are able to collaborate on open source projects. This paper will attempt to extend previous studies of software collaboration networks through the use of network analysis. Examining Sourceforge.net, we analyze this community of developers who have contributed greatly to open source software despite not being paid to do so.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-30287-9_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-30287-9_27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867466167
SN - 9783642302862
T3 - Studies in Computational Intelligence
SP - 257
EP - 264
BT - Complex Networks
ER -