@inbook {1610,
	title = {Barriers Faced by Newcomers to Open Source Projects: A Systematic Review},
	booktitle = {Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},
	volume = {427},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {153-163},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	abstract = {
To remain sustainable, some open source projects need a constant influx of new volunteers, or newcomers. However, the newcomers face different kinds of problems when onboarding to a project. In this paper we present the results of a systematic literature review aiming at identifying the barriers that a newcomer can face when contributing to an Open Source Software project. We identified and analyzed 21 studies that evidence this kind of problem. As a result we provide a hierarchical model that relies on five categories of barriers: finding a way to start, social interactions, code issues, documentation problems and newcomers{\textquoteright} knowledge. The most evidenced barriers are newcomers{\textquoteright} previous technical skills, receiving response from community, centrality of social contacts, and finding the appropriate way to start contributing. This classification provides a baseline for further researches related to newcomers onboarding.
},
	isbn = {978-3-642-55127-7},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_21},
	url = {http://flosscoach.com/publications/IST2015.pdf},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/IST2015.pdf},
	author = {Steinmacher, Igor and Silva, MarcoAur{\'e}lioGraciotto and Gerosa, MarcoAur{\'e}lio},
	editor = {Corral, Luis and Sillitti, Alberto and Succi, Giancarlo and Vlasenko, Jelena and Wasserman, AnthonyI.}
}
