%0 Conference Paper %B OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13) %D 2007 %T Network Analysis of the SourceForge.net Community %A Gao, Yongqin %A Madey, Greg %X Software is central to the functioning of modern computer-based society. The OSS (Open Source Software) phenomenon is a novel, widely growing approach to develop both applications and infrastructure software. In this research, we studied the community network of the SourceForge.net, especially the structure and evolution of the community network, to understand the Open Source Software movement. We applied three different analyses on the network, including structure analysis, centrality analysis and path analysis. By applying these analyses, we are able to gain insights of the network development and its influence to individual developments. %B OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13) %S IFIP International Federation for Information Processing %I Springer %V 234/2007 %P 187 - 200 %8 2007/// %G eng %& 15 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_15 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Network%20Analysis%20of%20the%20SourceForge.pdf %0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences %D 2006 %T A Topological Analysis of the Open Souce Software Development Community %A Jin Xu %A Gao, Yongqin %A Christley, S. %A Madey, G. %K contributors %K developers %K roles %K social network analysis %K social networks %K sourceforge %K srda %K users %X The fast growth of OSS has increased the interest in studying the composition of the OSS community and its collaboration mechanisms. Moreover, the success of a project may be related to the underlying social structure of the OSS development community. In this paper, we perform a quantitative analysis of Open Source Software developers by studying the entire development community at SourceForge [26]. Statistics and social network properties are explored to find collaborations and the effects of different members in the OSS development community. Small world phenomenon and scale free behaviors are found in the SourceForge development network. These topological properties may potentially explain the success and efficiency of OSS development practices. We also infer from our analysis that weakly associated but contributing co-developers and active users may be an important factor in OSS development. %B Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences %I IEEE %C Big Island, HI, USA %P 1-10 %U http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.132.6830&rep=rep1&type=pdf %R 10.1109/HICSS.2005.57 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/xuGao.pdf