Influence of social and technical factors for evaluating contribution in GitHub

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue 1, 2014, Pages 356-366

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

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contribution; GitHub; open source; signaling theory; social computing; social media; transparency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION USE; MANAGERS; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TRANSPARENCY;

CONTRIBUTION; GITHUB; OPEN SOURCES; SIGNALING THEORY; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84993660318     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2568225.2568315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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