Engaging without over-powering: A case study of a FLOSS project

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 319 AICT, Issue , 2010, Pages 29-41

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a   Baravalle, Andres ^a   Heap, Nick W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; OPEN SYSTEMS;

COMMUNITY-BASED; FLOSS PROJECTS; GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS; MULTI-SITE; OPEN UNIVERSITIES; OSS SYSTEMS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TRAINING PROGRAM;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84872033243     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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