@article{6688,
  keywords = {FLOSS},
  author = {Kevin Crowston and James Howison and Chengetai Masango and Yeliz Eseryel},
  title = {The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams},
  abstract = {We examine the role of face-to-face meetings in the context of technology-supported self-organizing distributed or virtual teams, specifically Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams. Based on a qualitative inductive analysis of data from interviews and observations at FLOSS conferences, we identify a variety of settings in which developers meet face-to-face, activities performed in these settings and benefits obtained. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, FLOSS developers generally do not meet face-to-face until the project is well under way. An additional benefit of face-to-face meetings is time away from a regular job and speed of interaction for certain kinds of tasks.},
  year = {2007},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications},
  volume = {50},
  number = {3},
  pages = {185–203},
  doi = {10.1109/TPC.2007.902654},
  language = {eng},
}