@inproceedings{3e56ef46d5994b3796fa7c41eaca0e5f,
title = "Core-periphery communication and the success of free/libre open source software projects",
abstract = "We examine the relationship between communications by core and peripheral members and Free/Libre Open Source Software project success. The study uses data from 74 projects in the Apache Software Foundation Incubator. We conceptualize project success in terms of success building a community, as assessed by graduation from the Incubator. We compare successful and unsuccessful projects on volume of communication by core (committer) and peripheral community members and on use of inclusive pronouns as an indication of efforts to create intimacy among team members. An innovation of the paper is that use of inclusive pronouns is measured using natural language processing techniques. We find that core and peripheral members differ in their volume of contribution and in their use of inclusive pronouns, and that volume of communication is related to project success.",
author = "Kevin Crowston and Ivan Shamshurin",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016.; 12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities, OSS 2016 ; Conference date: 30-05-2016 Through 02-06-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-39225-7_4",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319392240",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer New York LLC",
pages = "45--56",
editor = "Gregorio Robles and Kevin Crowston and Imed Hammouda and Juho Lindman and Bj{\"o}rn Lundell and Jonas Gamalielsson",
booktitle = "Open Source Systems",
}