@misc{20fe5f0de42f4f4199ad9d7a07c43f5f,
title = "Assessing the health of open source communities",
abstract = "Before contributing to a free or open source software project, participants need to understand the developers, leaders, and active users behind it.",
author = "Kevin Crowston and James Howison",
note = "Funding Information: This research was partially supported by NSF Grants 03–41475, 04–14468, and 05–27457. Any opinions, find ings, and conclusions or recommen dations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not neces sarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.",
year = "2006",
month = may,
doi = "10.1109/MC.2006.152",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "39",
pages = "89--91",
journal = "ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering",
issn = "0018-9162",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
}