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Pressing Questions of the Information Age: 19 May 2005
How open source software groups learn to work together:
The case of Apache webserver
Hala Annabi
Assistant professor, UW iSchool
Open Source Software (OSS) groups, by their very nature (being distributed, often voluntary, and having a potentially large number of submitted bug reports and fixes from outside of the core development team) experience many benefits and challenges with respect to the core group's effectiveness. To capitalize on the benefits and minimize the challenges they face, OSS groups must learn how to integrate individual contributions into the group's product and processes. In this talk, I will report the results of a study that investigates group learning process in the Apache httpd project during the first months of operations. The results inform a theoretical framework to study learning in distributed groups, and identifies behaviors and roles necessary for group learning and group effectiveness.
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