<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kevin Crowston</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">James Howison</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chengetai Masango</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eseryel, U. Yeliz</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ieee Transactions on Professional Communication</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">50</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">185-203</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">We examine the role of face-to-face meetings in the context of technology-supported self-organizing distributed (or virtual teams), specifically Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams. Based on a qualitative inductive analysis of data from interviews and observations at FLOSS conferences, we identify a variety of settings in which developers meet face-to-face, and we point out the activities performed in these settings and the benefits obtained. Contrary to conventional wisdom about distributed teams, FLOSS developers generally do not meet face-to-face until the project is well under way. An additional benefit offace-to-face meetings is time away from a regular job and speed of interaction for certain kinds of tasks.</style></abstract><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">WOS:000249308800001</style></accession-num><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Times Cited: 0</style></notes><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">communication?</style></custom1><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">grounded theory</style></custom2></record></records></xml>
