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Social media and success in open source projects

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Jason T. Tsay,

Laura Dabbish,

James HerbslebAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion

Pages 223 - 226

https://doi.org/10.1145/2141512.2141583

Published: 11 February 2012 Publication History

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Social media are being integrated into work environments. They have the potential to provide essential context and awareness, and increase work performance as a result. However, the specific effects of social media that impact productivity are not well understood. We perform a quantitative analysis of project success of over 5,000 open source software projects hosted on GitHub, a website that provides extensive social media functionality. Adapted from the open source literature, we develop two measures of project success, Developer Attention and Work Contribution. We find that projects with highly socially connected developers are not necessarily the most active or popular projects. Oddly, projects with a high level of developer multitasking, i.e., splitting effort equally across multiple projects, tend to receive less Developer Attention, but greater Work Contribution. Success on both measures is strongly positively associated with greater concentration of work among a small number of developers. We discuss the implications of the findings for social media in online production.

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Social media and success in open source projects
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion

February 2012

388 pages

ISBN:9781450310512

DOI:10.1145/2141512

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Microsoft Research
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University of California, Irvine
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University of Minnesota

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