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Open Source Software development has been an important software development way in last decade. Meanwhile, the Open Source Communities also grow fast in these years and become more and more important. This paper presents a preliminary study to China’s Open Source Communities. We provide some descriptive results according our survey and point out some problems threatening the further developments of China’s Open Source Communities. We also provide a model for assessing the maturity of the Open source community. A case study about one typical China Open Source Community also provided.
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Wang, Y., Li, F., Song, J. (2007). Open Source Communities in China (Mainland): An Overview. In: Schuler, D. (eds) Online Communities and Social Computing. OCSC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4564. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0_51
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