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Abstract | ||
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Communities that support software artifacts are more and more becoming a key success factors for companies and organizations. Members of the community can provide early feedback, patches and support. Following this trend companies release a product under an Open Source license and then sell the support. This paper tries to engineer the process of forming a community around a software artifact in its early stages. We focus our attention in small software such as artifacts produced by small companies or research products where the development is usually carried out by a few developers with limited resources. We present a generic methodology for creating a community around a software project. Our approach has been defined, applied and evaluated in a case study coming from the research filed of distribute applications. Our Empirical results shows that a productive community can be formed in about 4 months and demonstrate the benefit of a reciprocal collaboration between researchers and members of the Open Source community. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2009 | 10.1145/1595836.1595840 | Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Social software engineering and applications |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
software artifact,productive community,software project,initial step,software development,small group,research product,community,support software artifact,open source community,open source license,early feedback,open source,social software engineering,community support,early stage,small software,distributed application | Conference | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 7 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Francesco Lelli | 1 | 72 | 8.62 |
| Mehdi Jazayeri | 2 | 1280 | 176.00 |