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The document discusses definitions of open source communities. It notes that while Wikipedia defines a community as a group that interacts and shares things, there is no common definition of an open source community. The document raises questions about whether an open source community refers to free software versus open source, a single overall community, individual project communities, subgroups, or different roles like developers, users, and companies. It then provides a broad definition proposed by Dawn Foster of an open source community as a group of people interacting and sharing ideas, code, or documentation while working together on open source software in various capacities.

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Dawn Foster

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http://FastWonderBlog.com

The operationalisation of collaboration: in search of a definition and its consequences on analysis Collaboration has been defined in numerous ways. Researchers interested in collaboration at the individual or organizational level need to pay special attention to the adoption of a specific definition, as this is likely to have major implications for the research design and outcomes. With respect to collaboration within open source software projects, this presentation has two objectives. Firstly, this presentation will investigate a wide variety of definitions of collaboration from the existing literature. Secondly, the presentation will look at theoretically informed selection of a definition. Throughout the presentation, specific emphasis will be put on the implications of adoption of several definitions of collaboration for the application of Social Network Analysis to the study of open source software, particularly considering data collection and analysis. Open source software is developed in the open where anyone can view the source code and anyone with the knowledge to do so can contribute to the project. Because people from around the world work on these projects together using online tools, it is a relevant setting for studying collaboration. An interesting aspect of open source collaboration is that private resources from individuals and organizations are used to develop software that is released as a public good. Social Network Analysis can be used to understand the network relationships between the individuals who develop this software. Given the interest in collaboration from researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines, similar research is likely to produce considerations to stimulate further thoughts about definitions of collaboration in several domains and research settings.

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Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software and opens to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a computer enthusiast, developer, student learning to code, company of any size, you can help drive the growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community of great impact: Open-source. This slide is for a beginner who wants to understand what Open Source, Free Software, FOSS and Hacktoberfest are.

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