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An Investigation of Work Practices Used by Companies Making Contributions to Established OSS Projects
University of Skövde, School of Informatics. University of Skövde, The Informatics Research Centre. (Software Systems Research Group (SSRG))ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6215-3753
University of Skövde, School of Informatics. University of Skövde, The Informatics Research Centre. (Software Systems Research Group (SSRG))ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2700-2535
University of Skövde, School of Informatics. University of Skövde, The Informatics Research Centre. (Software Systems Research Group (SSRG))ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2825-135X
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2018 (English)In: ICSE-SEIP '18 Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018, p. 201-210Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Professionals contribute to open source software (OSS) projects aspart of their employment. Previous research has addressed motivationsof individuals and the ways they engage with OSS projects.However, there is a lack of research which examines and explainswork practices used by companies in their engagement with projects.Work practices used by companies to contribute to five establishedOSS projects are investigated through examination of the actions ofemployees in public communication channels and draw on our experienceswhen analysing engagement with the same projects. Wefind that companies utilise work practices for contributing whichare congruent with the circumstances and their capabilities thatsupport their short and long term needs. We find that companiescontribute to OSS projects in different ways, such as employing coreproject developers, making donations, and joining project steeringcommittees in order to advance strategic interests.

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New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 201-210
Keywords [en]
Open source software, company contribution, work practices
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Software Engineering
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Software Systems Research Group (SSRG)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-15585DOI: 10.1145/3183519.3183531Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85049698497ISBN: 978-1-4503-5659-6 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-15585DiVA, id: diva2:1218594
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ICSE-SEIP ’18: 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, Gothenburg, Sweden — May 27 - June 03, 2018
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Knowledge FoundationAvailable from: 2018-06-14 Created: 2018-06-14 Last updated: 2021-11-19Bibliographically approved

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