Why do people give up flossing? a study of contributor disengagement in open source

C Miller, DG Widder, C Kästner, B Vasilescu - Open Source Systems: 15th …, 2019‏ - Springer
Established contributors are the backbone of many free/libre open source software (FLOSS)
projects. Previous research has shown that it is critically important for projects to retain …

Companies' participation in oss development–an empirical study of openstack

Y Zhang, M Zhou, A Mockus… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Commercial participation continues to grow in open source software (OSS) projects and
novel arrangements appear to emerge in company-dominated projects and ecosystems …

Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects

OB Newton, SM Fiore - Journal of Systems and Software, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Issues associated with a lack of diversity and inclusivity persist in the domain of free/libre
and open source software (FLOSS) development and in software development generally …

Corporate dominance in open source ecosystems: a case study of OpenStack

Y Zhang, KJ Stol, H Liu, M Zhou - Proceedings of the 30th ACM joint …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
Corporate participation plays an increasing role in Open Source Software (OSS)
development. Unlike volunteers in OSS projects, companies are driven by business …

Open social innovation in response to grand challenges: promotor influence as change agent

G Barrett, L Dooley - R&D Management, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Following on from the R&D Management COVID‐19 two‐part special issue editorial, this
paper strives to deepen our knowledge of Open Social Innovation (OSI) in such grand …

Public-private funding models in open source software development: A case study on scikit-learn

C Osborne - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.06484, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Governments are increasingly funding open source software (OSS) development to support
software security, digital sovereignty, and national competitiveness in science and …

Guidelines for conducting software engineering research

KJ Stol, B Fitzgerald - Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software …, 2020‏ - Springer
This chapter presents a holistic overview of software engineering research strategies. It
identifies the two main modes of research within the software engineering research field …

Matching skills, past collaboration, and limited competition: Modeling when open-source projects attract contributors

H Fang, J Herbsleb, B Vasilescu - Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Attracting and retaining new developers is often at the heart of open-source project
sustainability and success. Previous research found many intrinsic (or endogenous) project …

How are paid and volunteer open source developers different? A study of the rust project

Y Zhang, M Qin, KJ Stol, M Zhou, H Liu - Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
It is now commonplace for organizations to pay developers to work on specific open source
software (OSS) projects to pursue their business goals. Such paid developers work …

Qualitative Surveys in Software Engineering Research: Definition, Critical Review, and Guidelines

J Melegati, K Conboy… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Qualitative surveys are emerging as a popular research method in software engineering
(SE), particularly as many aspects of the field are increasingly socio-technical and thus …