%0 Conference Paper %B 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences %D 2010 %T The Importance of Social Network Structure in the Open Source Software Developer Community %A Matthew Van Antwerp %A Madey, Greg %K developers %K popularity %K project success %K social network analysis %K sourceforge %K srda %X This paper outlines the motivations and methods for analyzing the developer network of open source software (OSS) projects. Previous work done by Hinds [5] suggested social network structure was instrumental towards the success of an OSS project, as measured by activity and output. The follow-up paper by Hinds [4] discovered that his hypotheses, based on social network theory and previous research on the importance of subgroup connectedness, were vastly different than the results of his study of over 100 successful OSS projects. He concluded that the social network structure had no significant effect on project success. We outline how his approach disregarded potentially important factors and through a new study evaluate the role of the OSS developer network as it pertains to long-term project popularity. We also present an initial investigation into the adequacy of using the SourceForge activity percentile as a long-term success metric. In contrast with Hinds, we show that previously existing developer-developer ties are an indicator of past and future project popularity. %B 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences %I IEEE %C Honolulu, Hawaii, USA %P 1 - 10 %@ 978-1-4244-5509-6 %R 10.1109/HICSS.2010.385 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/07-06-07.pdf %0 Conference Paper %B 3rd Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2008) %D 2008 %T Advances in the Sourceforge Research Data Archive %A Matthew Van Antwerp %A Madey, Greg %K forge %K forges %K repositories %K repository %K sourceforge %K srda %X The SourceForge Research Data Archive (SRDA), located at http://zerlot.cse.nd.edu, is a collection of Open Source Software (OSS) data and resources [6]. Over 100 researchers worldwide use the archive for research in many fields. In this paper, we describe the recent changes, the work in progress, and future plans for making the archive easier to use and for allowing more advanced research to be done with the data available. %B 3rd Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2008) %P 25-29 %8 2009 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/srda2008.pdf