Companies, Code, and Coordination: An Actor-Network Analysis of OSS 2.0

<p>Open source software is increasingly driven by a combination of independent and professional developers, the former volunteers and the later hired by a software company to contribute to the project to support commercial product development. This mix of developers has been referred to as OSS 2.0. However, we do not fully understand the coordination spanning individuals, teams, and organizations in OSS 2.0. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we describe how coordination and power dynamics unfold and how technological artifacts both display actions and mediate coordination efforts.