Latent social structure in open source projects

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 24-35

  Bird, Christian ^a   Pattison, David ^a   D'Souza, Raissa ^a   Filkov, Vladimir ^a   Devanbu, Premkumar ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Open Source Software; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DESIGN PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF-ORGANIZE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; WELL-ESTABLISHED TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70349941747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1453101.1453107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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