Knowledge work artifacts: Kernel cousins for free/open source software development

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 177-186

  Elliott, Margaret ^a   Ackerman, Mark S ^b   Scacchi, Walt ^a  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer supported cooperative work; CSCW; Free open software Systems; Knowledge artifacts; Knowledge management; Online discussions; Software Engineering

Indexed keywords

BENEFITS AND COSTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FREE/OPEN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE ARTIFACTS; KNOWLEDGE WORK; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; PEER PRODUCTION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; WORK PRODUCTS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; GROUPWARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77950479736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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