@conference {Krogstie:2008:PTB:1368088.1368201, title = {Power through brokering: open source community participation in software engineering student projects}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering}, series = {ICSE {\textquoteright}08}, year = {2008}, pages = {791{\textendash}800}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, abstract = {Many software engineering projects use open source software tools or components. The project team{\textquoteright}s active participation in the open source community may be necessary for the team to use the technology. Based on an in-depth field study of industry software engineering project students interacting with an open source community, we find that participation in the community may affect the team{\textquoteright}s work and learning by strengthening the power of the broker between the team and the community. We outline pitfalls and benefits of having student teams acquire development-related knowledge from open source communities. The findings are relevant to the organization and supervision of software engineering student projects interacting with open source communities.}, keywords = {Communities Of Practice, computer science education, FLOSS, open source, software engineering, software engineering education}, isbn = {978-1-60558-079-1}, doi = {10.1145/1368088.1368201}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1368088.1368201}, author = {Krogstie, Birgit R.} }