Ponencia
Analysis of online participation in open source communities
Autor/es | Martínez Torres, María del Rocío
Toral, S. L. Barrero, Federico |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Administración de Empresas y Comercialización e Investigación de Mercados (Marketing) Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica |
Fecha de publicación | 2009 |
Fecha de depósito | 2015-11-12 |
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ISBN/ISSN | 978-972-8924-82-9 |
Resumen | The success of an Open Source Software (OSS) project is closely linked to the successful organization and development of the virtual community of support. In particular, participation is the most important mechanism in ... The success of an Open Source Software (OSS) project is closely linked to the successful organization and development of the virtual community of support. In particular, participation is the most important mechanism in which the development of the project is supported. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the online participation in virtual communities using Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques. Several Open Source communities related to Linux ports to embedded processors are studied, obtaining a set of indicators from their social network representation. The statistical analysis of these indicators allows the extraction of several conclusions about the online participation in this kind of virtual communities |
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