Using Social Network Analysis Techniques to Study Collaboration between a FLOSS Community and a Company

Martínez-Romo, Juan; Robles, Gregório; González-Barahona, Jesús M.; Ortuno-Perez, Miguel

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_14

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“…For example, Martinez-Romeo et al [22] investigated how a community and a firm collaborates through the development process. Orucevic-Alagic et al [23] investigated the influence of stakeholders on each other in the Android project.…”

Section: Stakeholder Network and Interaction In Requirements Engineementioning

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How Firms Adapt and Interact in Open Source Ecosystems: Analyzing Stakeholder Influence and Collaboration Patterns

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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

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Abstract. [Context and motivation]Ecosystems developed as Open Source Software (OSS) are considered to be highly innovative and reactive to new market trends due to their openness and wide-ranging contributor base. Participation in OSS often implies opening up of the software development process and exposure towards new stakeholders. [Question/Problem] Firms considering to engage in such an environment should carefully consider potential opportunities and challenges upfront. The openness may lead to higher innovation potential but also to frictional losses for engaged firms. Further, as an ecosystem progresses, power structures and influence on feature selection may fluctuate accordingly. [Principal ideas/results] We analyze the Apache Hadoop ecosystem in a quantitative longitudinal case study to investigate changing stakeholder influence and collaboration patterns. Further, we investigate how its innovation and time-to-market evolve at the same time.[Contribution] Findings show collaborations between and influence shifting among rivaling and non-competing firms. Network analysis proves valuable on how an awareness of past, present and emerging stakeholders, in regards to power structure and collaborations may be created. Furthermore, the ecosystem's innovation and time-to-market show strong variations among the release history. Indications were also found that these characteristics are influenced by the way how stakeholders collaborate with each other.

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Section: Stakeholder Network and Interaction In Requirements Engineementioning

confidence: 99%

How Firms Adapt and Interact in Open Source Ecosystems: Analyzing Stakeholder Influence and Collaboration Patterns

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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

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“…[130,186] Identifies challenges related to modifying OSS components, and strategies (contributing, snapshot, forking, and initiating a new OSS project) for dealing with these modifications. [132] Time based releases seem to boost development in community-company collaborations. [158] A large number of companies give significant code contributions to Debian.…”

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Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

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Ayala²,

Conradi³

2010

Information and Software Technology

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Context: Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop, acquire, use, and commercialize software. Objective: This paper seeks to identify how organizations adopt OSS, classify the literature according to these ways of adopting OSS, and with a focus on software development evaluate the research on adoption of OSS in organizations. Method: Based on the systematic literature review method we reviewed publications from 24 journals and seven conference and workshop proceedings, published between 1998 and 2008. From a population of 24289 papers, we identified 112 papers which provide empirical evidence on how organizations actually adopt OSS. Results: We show that adopting OSS involves more than simply using OSS products. We moreover provide a classification framework consisting of six distinctly different ways in which organizations adopt OSS. This framework is used to illustrate some of the opportunities and challenges organizations meet when approaching OSS, to show that OSS can be adopted successfully in different ways, and to organize and review existing research. We find that this research does not sufficiently describe the context of the organizations studied. It is furthermore fragmented and fails to benefit fully from related research fields. Finally, we present directions for future research.

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“…Martinez-Romo et al [18] have studied collaboration between a FLOSS community and a company. They conducted case studies of two FLOSS projects: Evolution and Mono.…”

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Exploring the Role of Commercial Stakeholders in Open Source Software Evolution

Capiluppi

Stol

Boldyreff

2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. It has been lately established that a major success or failure factor of an OSS project is whether it involves a commercial company, or more extremely, when the project management is in the hands of a commercial software corporation. As documented recently, the success of the Eclipse IDE can be largely attributed to the project management of IBM, since the upper part of the developer hierarchy is dominated by its staff. This paper reports on the study of the evolution of three different Free, Libre, Open Source (FLOSS) projects -the Eclipse and jEdit IDE's, and the Moodle e-learning system -looking at whether they have benefited from the contribution of commercial companies. With the involvement of commercial companies, it is found that FLOSS projects achieve sustained productivity, increasing amounts of output produced and intake of new developers. It is also found that individual and commercial contributions show similar stages: developer intake, learning effect, sustained contributions and, finally, abandonment of the project. This preliminary evidence suggests that a major success factor for FLOSS is the involvement of a commercial company, or more radically, when project management is in hands of a commercial entity.

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Using Social Network Analysis Techniques to Study Collaboration between a FLOSS Community and a Company

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

How Firms Adapt and Interact in Open Source Ecosystems: Analyzing Stakeholder Influence and Collaboration Patterns

How Firms Adapt and Interact in Open Source Ecosystems: Analyzing Stakeholder Influence and Collaboration Patterns

Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Exploring the Role of Commercial Stakeholders in Open Source Software Evolution

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