Social coding in GitHub: Transparency and collaboration in an open software repository

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1277-1286

  Dabbish, Laura ^a   Stuart, Colleen ^a   Tsay, Jason ^a   Herbsleb, Jim ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

awareness; collaboration; coordination; open source software development; social computing; transparency

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; COLLABORATION; COORDINATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 84858199238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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