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Social dynamics of FLOSS team communication across channels
Presentation for IFIP 2.13 Open Source Software 2008 in Milan, reporting findings of dynamic social network analysis of communications in FLOSS teams in a variety of communication venues, including trackers, developer communication venues and user communication venues.
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- Slide 1: Social dynamics of FLOSS team communication across channels Andrea Wiggins, James Howison & Kevin Crowston Syracuse University School of Information Studies 9 September 2008 ~ IFIP 2.13 - OSS 2008
- Slide 2: Introduction • FLOSS studies using social network analysis (SNA) techniques raise questions of validity • Methodological issues for SNA on FLOSS – Choices of network measures – Evaluation of intensity of relationships – Effects of time – Variations across communication venues • Building upon Social dynamics of free and open source team communications by Howison et al., from IFIP 2.13 in 2006
- Slide 3: FLOSS Networks • Membership/association networks – Developer-project networks, not the focus of this paper • Communication networks – Network based on reply structure of public threads • Proxy for direct communicat
