Hi Isabel
Thanks for the links - these are very useful for me. (For those who
don't know - for the last year or so, I've been doing an MBA and have
tried to focus my assignments around the ASF). I've recently drafted my
Business Project using data from Kibble to create a cultural model for
the ASF based data from Httpd (the original source of ASF culture). One
of the Kibble indicators is around volunteer retention - so maybe we can
do some comparison or at least see if we are aligned in measure or
approach. Anyway it's by no means an official academic paper as such,
but I'd be happy to share what I've done (probably once I've got my
grade :-)
I think I saw that Myrle was also doing some academic writing around
Leadership at the ASF, so perhaps we could look at some way of creating
a way for this sort of writing / articles to be published somewhere.
Thanks
Sharan
On 12. 11. 18 16:55, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote:
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
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