Influences on developer participation in the debian software ecosystem

Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, MEDES'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 89-93

  Ververs, Eric ^a   Van Bommel, Rick ^a   Jansen, Slinger ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Debian; Developer activity; Developer involvement; Developer participation; Free software; Linux; Open source software; Software ecosystem

Indexed keywords

DEBIAN; DEVELOPER INVOLVEMENT; DEVELOPER PARTICIPATION; FREE SOFTWARE; LINUX; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEM;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84855676682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2077489.2077505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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