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Macro Studies of FOSS Ecology

Macro Studies of FOSS Ecology
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Copyright: 2018
Pages: 9
Source title: Free and Open Source Software in Modern Data Science and Business Intelligence: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): K.G. Srinivasa (Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Government Engineering College, India), Ganesh Chandra Deka (M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India)and Krishnaraj P.M. (M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3707-6.ch002

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Abstract

The ecology of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is dotted by projects of every kind ranging from small desktop applications to large mission critical systems. To enable maximum visibility among the developer community, these projects are often hosted in community project management portals. The current work studies one such portal, sourceforge.net by analyzing the data of 200,000 projects and 2 million developers for the period Feb 2005 to Aug 2009. The scope of the present study includes the analysis of developer contribution. The slow growth rate of developer community and high number of single developer projects are the major findings of the present work.

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