How social Q&Amp;A sites are changing knowledge sharing in open source software communities

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 342-354

  Vasilescu, Bogdan ^a,b   Serebrenik, Alexander ^a   Devanbu, Premkumar ^b   Filkov, Vladimir ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourced knowledge; Gamification; Mailing lists; Open source; Social Q Amp; A

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CROWDSOURCED KNOWLEDGE; GAMIFICATION; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MAILING LISTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; OPEN SOURCES; SOCIOTECHNICAL; WEB ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898969575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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