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Re: [ox-en] Transition of Governance in a Mature Open Software Source Community



for your info:

I'm tracking such studies here at
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Research

Michel


----- Original Message ----
From: Soenke Zehle <soenke.zehle web.de>
To: "list-en oekonux.org" <list-en oekonux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:48:29 PM
Subject: [ox-en] Transition of Governance in a Mature Open Software Source Community

Transition of Governance in a Mature Open Software Source Community: 
Evidence from the Debian Case
  by B. Sadowski, G. Sadowski-Rasters & G. Duysters

  [abstract]
  As flourishing, productive open source software (OSS) communities
  mature, they have to introduce a variety of governance mechanisms to
  manage the participation of their members and to coordinate
the

 launch
  of new releases. In contrast to other modes of governance of OSS
  communities, the Debian community introduced new mechanisms
of

 informal
  administrative control based on a constitution, elected leaders
and

 new
  functions attributed to interactive communication channels
(like

 mailing
  lists or IRC channels) that can provide for community effects (and
  feedback). We show that these control mechanisms were introduced as a
  response to emerging innovative opportunities due the usage of source
  packages and heterogeneous learning processes by different
groups

 within
  the Debian community,

  Keywords: Open Source Software community, Governance
Mechanism,

 Debian 
community
  Jel codes: 030

  UNU-MERIT Working Papers
  ISSN 1871-9872
  http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2007/wp2007-039.pdf
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