Micro Studies of FOSS Ecology

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Copyright: 2018
Pages: 14
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.ch003

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Open Source Software / Systems and Software Engineering

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Sourceforge.net is the largest portal hosting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Among the projects available in sourceforge.net, six top ranked projects are selected for studying global volunteer collaboration patterns over a period of 6 years (2005-2011). It is found that a small set of volunteers do most of the work in these projects. The growth rate of volunteers, identification of core developers, join and drop rate of volunteers, task allocation and rate of task completion, movement of existing volunteers among different projects and the rate of new volunteer inclusion are also studied.

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