Crowston, Kevin, and James Howison. “Hierarchy and Centralization in Free and Open Source Software Team Communications”. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, vol. 18, 4, 2006, pp. 65–85.
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Abstract
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams provide an interesting and convenient setting for studying distributed work. We begin by answering perhaps the most basic question: what is the social structure of these teams? Based on a social network analysis of interactions represented in 62,110 bug reports from 122 large and active projects, we find that some OSS teams are highly centralized, but contrary to expectation, others are not.
Year of Publication
2006
Journal
Knowledge, Technology & Policy
Volume
18
Number of Pages
65–85