From the Inside Out: Organizational Impact on Open-Source Communities and Women's Representation

H Frluckaj, HS Qiu, B Vasilescu, L Dabbish - … of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 17th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The involvement of companies and public institutions in open-source software (OSS) has
become widespread. While studies have explored the business models of for-profit …

The Distribution and Disengagement of Women Contributors in Open-Source: 2008–2021

ZH Zhao - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The underrepresentation of women contributors in the open-source software (OSS)
community has been a widely recognized problem. Past research has found that, in OSS …

Rules of Engagement: Why and How Companies Participate in OSS

M Guizani, AA Castro-Guzman, A Sarma… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Company engagement in open source (OSS) is now the new norm. From large technology
companies to startups, companies are participating in the OSS ecosystem by open-sourcing …

Open source barriers to entry, revisited: A sociotechnical perspective

C Mendez, HS Padala, Z Steine-Hanson… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Research has revealed that significant barriers exist when entering Open-Source Software
(OSS) communities and that women disproportionately experience such barriers. However …

Leaving my fingerprints: Motivations and challenges of contributing to OSS for social good

Y Huang, D Ford, T Zimmermann - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When inspiring software developers to contribute to open source software, the act is often
referenced as an opportunity to build tools to support the developer community. However …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding and Designing Mechanisms for Attracting and Retaining Open-Source Software Contributors

HS Qiu - 2022 - reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu
Open-source software (OSS) is now ubiquitous and indispensable, supporting applications
in virtually every domain. Therefore, sustaining this digital infrastructure is of utmost societal …

How do companies collaborate in open source ecosystems? an empirical study of openstack

Y Zhang, M Zhou, KJ Stol, J Wu, Z Jin - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Open Source Software (OSS) has come to play a critical role in the software industry. Some
large ecosystems enjoy the participation of large numbers of companies, each of which has …

Work practices and perceptions from women core developers in oss communities

ED Canedo, R Bonifácio, MV Okimoto… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Background. The effect of gender diversity in open source communities has gained
increasing attention from practitioners and researchers. For instance, organizations such as …

Characterizing women (not) contributing to open-source

P Wurzelová, F Palomba… - 2019 IEEE/ACM 2nd …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Women are under-represented not only in software development, but even more so in the
Open-Source Software (OSS) community. In this study we examine whether there are …

Gender representation among contributors to open-source infrastructure: an analysis of 20 package manager ecosystems

HS Qiu, ZH Zhao, TK Yu, J Wang, A Ma… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the severe underrepresentation of women and non-binary people in open source is
widely recognized, there is little empirical data on how the situation has changed over time …