Socialization practices in FLOSS development teams

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Title Socialization practices in FLOSS development teams
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsMasango, Chengetai
Secondary TitleOSS2005: Open Source Systems
Pagination322-323
Keywordsdevelopment team, FLOSS, member, open source, socialization
Abstract

Socialization of new members into Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams is an important but little studied process in producing effective teams of this type. This is a dissertation proposal for a virtual ethnographic study that looks at the mechanisms and processes used to socialize new members into the team in order to help maintain a common group identity and focus.
URLhttp://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/1438