Hi, a couple days ago someone recommended I read the following two papers:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6880395 "Who Will Stay in the FLOSS Community? Modeling Participant’s Initial Behavior" ... essentially an analysis of which intrinsic factors, as well as which project global and contributor local factors play a role in turning an early contributor into a long term project member. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8477174 "Uncovering the Periphery: A Qualitative Survey of Episodic Volunteering in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Communities" ... an analysis of the phenomenon of contributors who work on the periphery of a project, e.g. as volunteers that come and go, that work when they get the time to do so, that participate at a lower rate than their full-time peers. >From time to time I get the question of how to best recruit new contributors. Reading (well, more skimming than actually diving deep enough to do a thorough scientific review of them) those two papers made me aware of some factors that I found work well in the past backed with actual experiments and analysis. Hope someone on this list finds those as interesting, Isabel
