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Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities ( CPiOSC )

Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities ( CPiOSC ). Wifak Gueddana (London School of Economics). Concept of the project. OS Interactional Performance : Processes by which participants perform OS membership through interactions with their peers and open code technologies.

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Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities ( CPiOSC )

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  1. Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities (CPiOSC) Wifak Gueddana (London School of Economics)

  2. Concept of the project OS Interactional Performance: Processes by which participants perform OS membership through interactions with their peers and open code technologies. • OS Platform: The ensemble of interconnected wikis, data repositories, tools and OS production websites online that mediate participants’ interactions • OS Sustainability: Long-term mechanisms of community participation CPiOSC

  3. Objectives of the project • Open Source software (OS) communities behave differently from other technical groups in their practices, goals, capacity utilisation and innovative outputs. • Cross-boundary participation and its effects on aspects of community building in open code development • Micro-level interactions and members’ logs of activity: Real time analysis of discussions in online communities • How can we study the micro-processes of interactions in OS? CPiOSC

  4. Project outcomes Main outcome: A hybrid Methodology This is a combined and staged approach to study cross-boundary interactions in OS communities Particularities • Unique Case study: Mifos; mature platform; 10+ years old; 45 countries; 500+ members • Visualisation: Mailing lists • Genealogy of the project: bringing social networks into qualitative narrative • Email Content Analysis: Mechanisms of knowledge production CPiOSC

  5. Mifos Profile Groups

  6. 2007 2008 2009 2010

  7. Mo’Ap Stage Pre-Mifos 1.1 release Post-Mifos 1.1 release 2011 transition

  8. Mechanisms inducing Participation • Knowledge transfer/learning: • Social Processes enabling collaboration and information sharing among different profile groups (Questions, Archives, Problem-solving) • Users’ perceptions on design and code objects: • Code objects and platform’s potential to account for participation and enable continuous redesign

  9. Relevance to EINS JRA activities JRA3: Evidence and Experimentation • Building and maintaining OS infrastructure. • A practice based approach, looking at how cross-disciplinary behaviour is organised over time. • Design and development of a methodology JRA6: Virtual Communities • Going beyond community Building: The question of sustainability • Public/Private model of innovation CPiOSC

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