Context Numerous open source software projects are based on volunteers collaboration
and require a continuous influx of newcomers for their continuity. Newcomers face barriers …

Newcomers' seamless onboarding is important for online communities that depend upon
leveraging the contribution of outsiders. Previous studies investigated aspects of the joining …

Context: The pull-based model, widely used in distributed software development, offers an
extremely low barrier to entry for potential contributors (anyone can submit of contributions to …

Motivation: Society's dependence on Open Source Software (OSS) and the communities that
maintain the OSS is ever-growing. So are the potential risks of, eg, vulnerabilities being …

An inside look at modern open source software developers--and their influence on our
online social world." Nadia is one of today's most nuanced thinkers about the depth and …

Sustained participation by contributors in opensource software is critical to the survival of
open-source projects and can provide career advancement benefits to individual …

Community-based Open Source Software (OSS) projects are usually self-organized and
dynamic, receiving contributions from distributed volunteers. Newcomer are important to the …

Research has revealed that significant barriers exist when entering Open-Source Software
(OSS) communities and that women disproportionately experience such barriers. However …

The team aspects of software engineering have been a subject of great interest since early
work by Fred Brooks and others: how well do people work together in teams? why do people …

Open-source projects do not exist in a vacuum. They benefit from reusing other projects and
themselves are being reused by others, creating complex networks of interdependencies, ie …