What Attracts Newcomers to Onboard on OSS Projects? TL;DR: Popularity
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There is little to no empirical evidence to support that CoCs help attract newcomers.
“CoCs are generally considered helpful in attracting newcomers [18,21], yet there is little to no empirical evidence to support that.”
From Codes of Conduct in Open Source (2024) · cites this paper as [9]
There is evidence that the CoC's presence has no bearing on a newcomer's joining of a new project compared with other factors considered.
“In fact, there is evidence that the CoC's presence has no bearing on a newcomer's joining of a new project compared with other factors considered [9,19].”
From Codes of Conduct in Open Source (2024) · cites this paper as [9]
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Community, joining, and specialization in open source software innovation: a case study
von Krogh, G., Spaeth, S., & Lakhani, K. R. (2003) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/s0048-7333(03)00050-7 · Cited by 1,025 · cited 2× · see citing works
“Several studies focus on how newcomers join OSS projects [18,30,31].”
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The Signals that Potential Contributors Look for When Choosing Open-source Projects
Qiu, H. S., Li, Y. L., Padala, S., Sarma, A., & Vasilescu, B. (2019) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3359224 · Cited by 75 · see citing works
Codes of Conduct in Open Source
Frluckaj, H., & Howison, J. (2024) · Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering · doi:10.1007/978-1-4842-9651-6_17 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
- Authors
- Fronchetti, F., Wiese, I., Pinto, G., & Steinmacher, I.
- Affiliations
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Pará (BR)
- Northern Arizona University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fronchetti, Felipe
- Venue
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2019
- Volume
- AICT-556
- Pages
- 91-103
- ISSN
- 1868-422X (ISSN-L)
- 1868-4238
- OpenAlex
- W2946270456
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 5.21
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- inria.hal.science
- Licence
- Locations
- IFIP advances in information and communication technology (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Keywords
- open source software, contributor onboarding, volunteer motivation, project popularity, programming languages
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