@article {86,
	title = {The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams},
	journal = {Ieee Transactions on Professional Communication},
	volume = {50},
	number = {3},
	year = {2007},
	note = {Times Cited: 0},
	pages = {185-203},
	abstract = {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.},
	author = {Kevin Crowston and James Howison and Chengetai Masango and Eseryel, U. Yeliz}
}
