Evolution of volunteer participation in libre software projects: Evidence from debian

OSS 2005 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 100-107

  Robles, Gregorio ^a   Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a   Michlmayr, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resources; Libre software engineering; Software evolution; Volunteer developers

Indexed keywords

LARGE PROJECT; LIBRE SOFTWARE; MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; TECHNICAL SKILLS; VOLUNTEER DEVELOPERS; WORK-RELATED;

PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547930548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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