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Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects (2004)
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| Venue: | Projects, Proc. 38 th . Hawaii Intern. Conf. Systems Sciences, Waikola Village |
| Citations: | 45 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{West04contrastingcommunity,
author = {Joel West and Siobhán O'Mahony},
title = {Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects},
booktitle = {Projects, Proc. 38 th . Hawaii Intern. Conf. Systems Sciences, Waikola Village},
year = {2004}
}
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Abstract
Prior characterizations of open source projects have been based on the model of a community-founded project. More recently, a second model has emerged, where organizations spinout an existing code base developed internally to a public forum. Based on field work on open source projects, we compare the lifecycle differences between these two models. We identify problems unique to spinout projects, particularly in attracting and building an external community. We illustrate these issues with a case study of a proposed open source project based on VistA, the primary healthcare information system of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This case illuminates the complexities of building a community after a code base has been developed and suggests that open source software can be a mechanism for technology transfer to the private sector.
Keyphrases
contrasting community building community founded open source project open source project code base primary healthcare information system case study community-founded project open source software external community u.s. department private sector lifecycle difference field work second model public forum veteran affair technology transfer prior characterization
