Joining free/open source software communities: An analysis of newbies' first interactions on project mailing lists

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jensen, Carlos ^a   King, Scott ^a   Kuechler, Victor ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; IT ECOSYSTEM; MAILING LISTS; MEDIAWIKI; POSTGRESQL;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 79952972914     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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