Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing 2015
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675215
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Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects

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“…Steinmacher et al [8] analyzed social barriers that hampered newcomers' first contributions. These barriers were identified considering a systematic literature review, students contributing to open source projects, and responses collected from OSS projects' contributors.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Steinmacher et al [8] analyzed social barriers that hampered newcomers' first contributions. These barriers were identified considering a systematic literature review, students contributing to open source projects, and responses collected from OSS projects' contributors.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We measured sentiment using the state-of-the-art SentiStrength tool 8 , which is able to estimate the degree of positive and negative sentiment in short texts, even for informal language. SentiStrength by default detects two sentiment polarizations:…”
Section: B Sentimentmentioning
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“…By contrast, intrinsically motivated communities such as Arch (Linux distribution) or jEdit (text editor) target their products to very specific user groups, are rather irrelevant to the general market and are run by small teams, due to which they have so far been able to do without pronounced social structures or membership rules ("You can 'join' simply by subscribing to the […] mailing lists"). Still, even smaller developer communities are marked by technical and social contribution barriers, "including steep learning curve, lack of community support, and difficulties finding out how to start" (Steinmacher et al 2015(Steinmacher et al : 1380; and when such communities grow, alongside the intensity of their interactions with external market actors, they too tend to adopt "cathedral-like" organizational modes, regardless of any level of technical efficiency they may have attained. The common denominator of all four project variants is their underlying open source licensing models, which protect their products from direct proprietarization.…”
Section: Figure 1: Varieties Of Open Source Software Projectsmentioning
confidence: 99%