Episodic volunteering in open source communities
Abstract
Episodic volunteers, who prefer short term engagement to habitual contributions, are present in Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities. Little is known about how they are viewed within their communities, how they view their communities, how community managers are managing them, or even how many episodic volunteers contribute to FLOSS projects and how much they contribute. Knowing more about the prevalence and management of episodic volunteers in FLOSS will help community managers make better decisions for engaging and utilizing these volunteers. My dissertation addresses these questions, providing a picture of what episodic volunteering looks like in the context of FLOSS communities.
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More contributors and users make projects appear more successful and thus worthy of funding by entities who fund F/OSS.
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- Authors
- Barcomb, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Limerick (IE)
- Corresponding author
- Barcomb, Ann
- ORCID
- Barcomb, Ann
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2016-06
- Pages
- 1-3
- OpenAlex
- W2405730867
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 0.27
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Social Sciences › Communication › Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Keywords
- episodic volunteering, open source communities, free and open source software, volunteer engagement, community management
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