creation of Free/Open Source software. We used a Web-based survey, administered to 684 software developers in 287 F …, career advancement) are the main drivers of effort. We find in contrast, that enjoyment-based intrinsic motivation, namely …

Open source software projects rely on the voluntary efforts of thousands of software developers, yet we know little … framework for understanding participation from the perspective of the individual software developer based on data from two … software communities with different governance structures. In both communities, a need for software-related improvements drives …

software, we look at how this particular practice, and different types of it, affect existing tasks and responsibilities of …

The empirical studies relative to the Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) case stress the important role played by …