@conference {719,
	title = {Evaluating the Quality and Quantity of Data on Open Source Software Projects},
	booktitle = {OSS2005: Open Source Systems },
	year = {2005},
	pages = {29-36},
	abstract = {In this paper, we provide a preliminary evaluation of the quality and quantity of data on open source (OS) projects, provided at the SourceForge.net portal. We have derived a dataset of approximately 50000 projects from SourceForge. Using several indicators of project activity, we identify two samples from the entire dataset: the {\textquoteleft}most active{\textquoteright} OS projects (a total of 456 projects, ~0.9\% of the entire dataset), and those projects with active code development (5826 projects, ~11.6\%). The number of projects that are active across all of our main indicators of activity account for less than 1\% of the projects on the portal. This suggests that many OS projects being registered on SourceForge are {\textquoteleft}impulse{\textquoteright} projects, which do not gather sufficient interest from developers or users to {\textquoteleft}activate{\textquoteright} those projects and make them {\textquoteleft}successful{\textquoteright}. It also suggests that researchers, developers and users should be careful about how they use OS portals.},
	url = {http://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/733},
	author = {Rainer, Austen and Gale, Stephen}
}
@conference {784,
	title = {An Investigation of Developer and User Activity In FLOSS Projects},
	booktitle = {OSS2005: Open Source Systems },
	year = {2005},
	pages = {307-308},
	abstract = {This document outlines research plans to investigate the evolution of a set of FLOSS (Free, Libre, and Open Source Software) projects and their communities by looking at patterns of developer and user activity through a combination of analysis of archived material and interaction with the project communities. The goal of the proposed research is to better understand the dynamics within FLOSS projects and how some projects become successful.},
	keywords = {developer, development, FLOSS, FLOSS project, open source, pattern, portal, project},
	url = {http://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/712},
	author = {Gale, Stephen}
}
