Social media and success in open source projects

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 223-226

  Tsay, Jason T ^a   Dabbish, Laura ^a   Herbsleb, James ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

open source; social media; software development; success

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; PROJECT SUCCESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; SUCCESS; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; WORK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84858258853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2141512.2141583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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