TY - JOUR T1 - Roles and politeness behavior in community-based Free/Libre Open Source Software development JF - Information and Management Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kangning Wei A1 - Kevin Crowston A1 - Eseryel, U. Yeliz A1 - Heckman, Robert KW - Core-periphery structure KW - Open source software development KW - Politeness behavior AB - Community-based Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development relies on contributions from both core and peripheral members. Prior research on core-periphery has focused on software coding-related behaviors. We study how core-periphery roles are related to social-relational behavior in terms of politeness behavior. Data from two FLOSS projects suggest that both core and peripheral members use more positive politeness strategies than negative strategies. Further, core and peripheral members use different strategies to protect positive face in positive politeness, which we term respect and intimacy respectively. Our results contribute to FLOSS research and politeness theory. VL - 54 IS - 5 ER -