@article {1118,
	title = {Monetary donations to an open source software platform},
	journal = {Research Policy},
	volume = {38},
	year = {2009},
	month = {03/2009},
	pages = {404 - 414},
	abstract = {Online open source software platforms, such as Sourceforge.net, play a vital role in creating an ecosystem that enables the creation and growth of open source projects. However, there is little research exploring the interactions between open source stakeholders and the platform. We believe that the sustainability of the platform crucially depends on financial incentives. While platforms can obtain these incentives through multiple means, in this paper we focus on one form of financial incentives{\textemdash}voluntary monetary donations by open source community members. We report findings from two empirical studies that examine factors that impact donations. Study 1 investigates the factors that cause some community members to donate and not others. We find that the decision to donate is impacted by relational commitment with open source software platform, donation to projects and accepting donations from others. Study 2 examines what drives the level of donation. We find that the length of association with the platform and relational commitment affects donation levels.},
	keywords = {Collective action, Donation, Identification, incentives, metadata, MOTIVATION, Open source software platform, projects, Reciprocity, Relational commitment, sourceforge},
	issn = {00487333},
	doi = {10.1016/j.respol.2008.11.004},
	author = {Sandeep Krishnamurthy and Tripathi, Arvind K.}
}
@conference {Ohira:2005:ACK:1083142.1083163,
	title = {Accelerating cross-project knowledge collaboration using collaborative filtering and social networks},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2005 international workshop on Mining software repositories},
	series = {MSR {\textquoteright}05},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {111-115},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {Vast numbers of free/open source software (F/OSS) development projects use hosting sites such as Java.net and SourceForge.net. These sites provide each project with a variety of software repositories (e.g. repositories for source code sharing, bug tracking, discussions, etc.) as a media for communication and collaboration. They tend to focus on supporting rich collaboration among members in each project. However, a majority of hosted projects are relatively small projects consisting of few developers and often need more resources for solving problems. In order to support cross-project knowledge collaboration in F/OSS development, we have been developing tools to collect data of projects and developers at SourceForge, and to visualize the relationship among them using the techniques of collaborative filtering and social networks. The tools help a developer identify {\textquotedblleft}who should I ask?{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}what can I ask?{\textquotedblright} and so on. In this paper, we report a case study of applying the tools to F/OSS projects data collected from SourceForge and how effective the tools can be used for helping cross-project knowledge collaboration.},
	keywords = {collaborative filtering, developers, knowledge collaboration, projects, social networks, sourceforge, visualization tool},
	isbn = {1-59593-123-6},
	doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1082983.1083163},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1082983.1083163},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/111Accelerating.pdf},
	author = {Ohira, Masao and Ohsugi, Naoki and Ohoka, Tetsuya and Matsumoto, Ken-ichi}
}
@article {1253,
	title = {The many meanings of open source},
	journal = {IEEE Software},
	volume = {21},
	year = {2004},
	note = {"We determined a set of characteristics that are almost always present and others that vary among open source projects, and this serves as the core of this work"
"Section 3 describes some open source characteristics that can be used in determining whether a project is or not open source"},
	month = {01/2004},
	pages = {34 - 40},
	abstract = {The term Open Source is widely applied to describe some software development methodologies. This paper does not provide a judgment on the open source approach, but exposes the fact that simply stating that a project is open source does not provide a precise description of the approach used to support the project. By taking a multi- disciplinary point of view, we propose a collection of characteristics that are common, as well as some that vary among open source projects. The set of open source characteristics we found can be used as a tick-list both for analysing and for setting up open source projects. Our tick-list also provides a starting point for understanding the many meanings of the term open source.},
	keywords = {classification, projects, taxonomy},
	issn = {0740-7459},
	doi = {10.1109/MS.2004.1259206},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/gacek.pdf},
	author = {Gacek, C. and Arief, B.}
}
