TY - GEN
T1 - Group maintenance behaviors of core and peripherial members of free/libre open source software teams
AU - Scialdone, Michael J.
AU - Li, Na
AU - Heckman, Robert
AU - Crowston, Kevin G
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Group Maintenance is pro-social, discretionary, and relation-building behavior that occurs between members of groups in order to maintain reciprocal trust and cooperation. This paper considers how Free/libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) teams demonstrate such behaviors within the context of email, as this is the primary medium through which such teams communicate. We compare group maintenance behaviors between both core and peripheral members of these groups, as well as behaviors between a group that remains producing software today and one which has since dissolved. Our findings indicate that negative politeness tactics (those which show respect for the autonomy of others) may be the most instrumental group maintenance behaviors that contribute to a FLOSS group’s ability to survive and continue software production.
AB - Group Maintenance is pro-social, discretionary, and relation-building behavior that occurs between members of groups in order to maintain reciprocal trust and cooperation. This paper considers how Free/libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) teams demonstrate such behaviors within the context of email, as this is the primary medium through which such teams communicate. We compare group maintenance behaviors between both core and peripheral members of these groups, as well as behaviors between a group that remains producing software today and one which has since dissolved. Our findings indicate that negative politeness tactics (those which show respect for the autonomy of others) may be the most instrumental group maintenance behaviors that contribute to a FLOSS group’s ability to survive and continue software production.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84944208155
SN - 9783642020315
VL - 299
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 298
EP - 309
BT - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
PB - Springer New York LLC
T2 - 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2009
Y2 - 3 June 2009 through 6 June 2009
ER -