@proceedings{6697, keywords = {FLOSS}, author = {Kevin Crowston and Hala Annabi and James Howison}, title = {Defining Open Source Software project success}, abstract = {Information systems success is one of the most widely used dependent variables in information systems research. In this paper, we identify a range of measures that can be used to assess the success of Open Source Software (OSS) projects. We identify measures based on a review of the literature, a consideration of the OSS development process and an analysis of the opinions of OSS developers. For each measure, we provide examples of how they might be used in a study of OSS development.}, year = {2003}, journal = {Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)}, address = {Seattle, WA, December}, language = {eng}, }