@conference {637,
	title = {Learning and the imperative of production in Free/Open Source development},
	booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing },
	volume = {234/2007},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007///},
	pages = {235 - 240},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	chapter = {21},
	abstract = {This paper examines the role of learning in structuring access and participation in F/OS communities. In particular it highlights the challenges and barriers to access faced by new developers and the expectations of senior developers regarding the mindsets and capabilities of new contributors. It is argued that learning in F/OS is inextricably connected with the demand for continuous production. The evidence presented is drawn from interviews conducted with inexperienced and experienced contributors from the GNOME and KDE projects. The author challenges the view of learning as an enculturation process and the paper contributes to the understanding of power relations among established and peripheral members in communities of practice.
},
	issn = {978-0-387-72485-0},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_21},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Learning\%20and\%20the\%20imprative\%20of\%20production.pdf},
	author = {Evangelia Berdou}
}
@mastersthesis {482,
	title = {Managing the Bazaar: Commercialization and peripheral participation in mature, community-led Free/Open source software projects},
	year = {2007},
	month = {Nov},
	abstract = {The thesis investigates two fundamental dynamics of participation and collaboration in mature, community-led Free/Open Source (F/OS) software projects - commercialization and peripheral participation. The two primary case studies of the research are the GNOME and KDE communities.The thesis contributes insights into how the gift economy is embedded in the exchange economy and the role of peripheral contributors. The analysis indicates that community-integrated paid developers have a key role in project development, maintaining the infrastructure aspects of the code base. The analysis suggests that programming and non-programming contributors are distinct in their make-up, priorities and rhythms of participation, and that learning plays an important role in controlling access. The results show that volunteers are important drivers of peripheral activities, such as translation and documentation. The term "autonomous peripherality"" is used to capture the unique characteristics of these activities. These findings support the argument that centrality and peripherality are associated with the division of labour, which, in turn, is associated with employment relations and frameworks of institutional support. The thesis shows how the tensions produced by commercialization and peripheral participation are interwoven with values of meritocracy, ritual and  strategic enactment of the idea of community as well as with tools and techniques developed to address the emergence of a set of problems specific to management and governance. These are characterized as "technologies of communities."},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/PhD_Berdou.pdf},
	author = {Evangelia Berdou}
}
@conference {694,
	title = {Insiders and outsiders: paid contributors and the dynamics of cooperation in community led F/OS projects},
	booktitle = {OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {201 - 208},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	abstract = {This paper examines the role of paid developers in mature free/open source (F/OS) communities. In particular it provides a typology for their involvement based on their employment and sponsorship arrangements and elaborates a framework for understanding the dynamics of cooperation developing between them and the volunteers based on their community ties. The evidence presented is drawn from individual interviews conducted with volunteer and paid contributors from the GNOME and KDE projects within the context of a PhD research focusing on commercialization and peripheral participation in F/OS communities. The paper highlights the various interdependencies that form between communities and companies and adds to our understanding of the dynamics of commercialization in F/OS projects.
},
	keywords = {gnome, interviews, kde},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34226-5_20},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Insiders\%20and\%20outsiders.pdf},
	author = {Evangelia Berdou}
}
