@book {1417,
	title = {Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons},
	year = {2012},
	note = {Supplementary material available: http://www.umass.edu/opensource/schweik/supplementary.html},
	publisher = {MIT Press},
	organization = {MIT Press},
	type = {Book},
	address = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
	keywords = {flossmole, srda},
	url = {http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545},
	author = {Schweik, C. M. and English, R.}
}
@conference {1223,
	title = {Success and Abandonment in Open Source Commons: Selected Findings from an Empirical Study of Sourceforge.net Projects},
	booktitle = {Second International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities (OSCOMM 2010)},
	year = {2010},
	note = {"we utilize data collected from August through October 2006 on 107,747 OSS projects hosted on the open source hosting site Sourceforge.net (SF henceforth). We combined SF project data gathered by the FLOSSmole project (Howison et al., 2006) with other SF data we {\textquotedblleft}crawled{\textquotedblright} ourselves"},
	month = {05/2010},
	abstract = {Some open source software collaborations are sustained over long periods of time and across several versions of a software product, while others become abandoned even before the first version of the product has been developed. In this study, we identify factors that might be responsible for one or the other of these collaborative trajectories. We examine 107,747 open source software projects hosted on Sourceforge.net in August 2006 using data available through the FLOSSmole Project. We employ Classification and Regression Tree modeling and Random Forests statistical approaches to begin to establish an understanding of how various project attributes, especially physical and community ones, contribute to project success or abandonment. We find that factors associated with success and abandonment differ for projects in the early stage of development (pre-first release) compared to projects that have had a first release, and that product utility, project vision, leadership, and group-size are associated with success in open source collaborations. We also find that successful open source projects exist across all types of software and not simply in areas associated with the open source {\textquotedblleft}movement.{\textquotedblright} Other evidence suggests that Sourceforge.net may play an important role in {\textquotedblleft}intellectual match-making.{\textquotedblright}},
	keywords = {abandonment, flossmole, metadata, project failure, project success, sourceforge, time},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/osscomm003.pdf},
	author = {Schweik, C. M. and English, R. and Paienjton, Q. and Haire, S.}
}
@article {1416,
	title = {Identifying Success and Abandonment of Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) Commons: A Preliminary Classification of Sourceforge.net projects},
	journal = {Upgrade: The European Journal for the Informatics Professional},
	volume = {VIII},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {54-59},
	abstract = {Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects are a form of commons where individuals work collectively to produce software that is a public, rather than a private, good. The famous phrase {\textquotedblleft}Tragedy of the Commons{\textquotedblright} describes a situation where a natural resource commons, such as a pasture, or a water supply, gets depleted because of overuse. The tragedy in FLOSS commons is distinctly different: It occurs when collective action ceases before a software product is produced or reaches its full potential. This paper builds on previous work about defining success in FLOSS projects by taking a collective action perspective. We first report the results of interviews with FLOSS developers regarding our ideas about success and failure in FLOSS projects. Building on those interviews and previous work, we then describe our criteria for defining success/tragedy in FLOSS commons. Finally, we discuss the results of a preliminary classification of nearly all projects hosted on Sourceforge.net as of August 2006.},
	keywords = {flossmole, sourceforge, success},
	url = {http://www.cepis.org/upgrade/files/full-VI-07.pdf},
	author = {English, R. and Schweik, C. M.}
}
@article {94,
	title = {Identifying Success and Tragedy of FLOSS Commons: A Preliminary Classification of Sourceforge. net Projects},
	journal = {Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development, 2007. FLOSS{\textquoteright}07. First International Workshop on},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {11-11},
	author = {English, R. and Schweik, C. M.}
}
