%0 Conference Paper %B Second International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities (OSCOMM 2010) %D 2010 %T Success and Abandonment in Open Source Commons: Selected Findings from an Empirical Study of Sourceforge.net Projects %A Schweik, C. M. %A English, R. %A Paienjton, Q. %A Haire, S. %K abandonment %K flossmole %K metadata %K project failure %K project success %K sourceforge %K time %X 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 “movement.” Other evidence suggests that Sourceforge.net may play an important role in “intellectual match-making.” %B Second International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities (OSCOMM 2010) %8 05/2010 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/osscomm003.pdf %0 Journal Article %J International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes %D 2009 %T Open Source Software Adoption: Anatomy of Success and Failure %A Fitzgerald, Brian %K adoption %K project failure %K project success %X Current estimates suggest widespread adoption of open source software (OSS) in organizations worldwide. However, the problematic nature of OSS adoption is readily evidenced in the fairly frequent reports of problems, unforeseen hold-ups, and outright abandonment of OSS implementation over time. Hibernia Hospital, an Irish public sector organization, have embarked on the adoption of a range of OSS applications over several years, some of which have been successfully deployed and remain in live use within the organisation, whereas others, despite achieving high levels of assimilation over a number of years, have not been ultimately retained in live use in the organization. Using a longitudinal case study, we discuss in depth the deployment process for two OSS applications – the desktop application suite whose deployment was unsuccessful ultimately, and the email application which was successfully deployed. To our knowledge, this is the first such in-depth study into successful and unsuccessful OSS implementation. %B International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes %V 1 %P 1-23 %8 01/2009 %R 10.4018/jossp.2009010101