Participation in an Open Source Software Community
This research focuses on Open Source Software (OSS) design seen as a new form of work organisation, based on volontary participation and distribution of design process in three online activity spaces (discussion, documentation and implementation). Our work provides an innovative methodology based on contextual analyses of a formal design process in the Python project. We combine structural and qualitative analyses in a synchronic and a diachronic perspectives. On the basis of these analyses, our results outline that a development-oriented community is composed by local design networks linking users coming from various use-oriented communities. In this community, participation is characterized by the roles of participants more than by their statuses (users vs. developers). Cognitive and epistemic roles are managed by all the participants. Boundary spanners, mediating use and design, appear to be key participants for the success of the design process: this profile is status-independent. Two particular statuses, project leader and champion of new design proposal, are associated to a particular profile, an animation profile characterized by coordination and socio-relational roles. Two mailing lists offer boundary occasions to use-oriented and a design-oriented communities in Python. These results may help specifying tools in order to foster participation in OSS.
Flore Barcellini Fran(c)oise Détienne Jean-Marie Burkhardt
Laboratoire d’Ergonomie, Cnam, CRTD, 41 rue Gay-Lussac 75005 Paris France LTCI- UMR 5141 - CNRS - Telecom Paris Tech46 rue Barrault 75634 Paris Cedex 13 France LECI, Université Paris Descartes 45 rue des Saints-Pères 75006 Paris France
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-9
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）