@conference {Rozas:2014:DCP:2641580.2641624, title = {Drupal As a Commons-Based Peer Production Community: A Sociological Perspective}, booktitle = {Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration}, series = {OpenSym {\textquoteright}14}, year = {2014}, pages = {36:1{\textendash}36:2}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, abstract = {The aim of this research consists of extracting a set of insights related to the dynamics, group decision making procedures, motivations to contribute and mechanisms employed in the coordination of Commons-Based Peer Production communities, using as a case study the community responsible for the development of the Free/Libre Open Source Software Drupal. A sociological perspective is taken for this purpose, and a set of social research qualitative and quantitative methods employed for the study of online communities (virtual ethnography) are being used. }, keywords = {Activity Theory, Commons-Based Peer Production, drupal, Free/Libre Open Source Software, Virtual Ethnography}, isbn = {978-1-4503-3016-9}, doi = {10.1145/2641580.2641624}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2641580.2641624}, author = {Rozas, David} }