Managing volunteer activity in free software projects

Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Michlmayr, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

FREE SOFTWARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE STRATEGIES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84872939958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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