Open Source Software Research

This website describes work being conducted with the support of the National Science Foundation grant IIS-0347376, "CAREER: A Study of Open Source Software Project Success."  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

The principle investigator on this grant is Dr. Katherine Stewart, Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Decision, Operations and Information Technologies Department of the R. H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

This website was last modified 05/07/2009

Overview
The main goals of the project are developing and testing a model of the influences of team, project, and user factors on success in open source software ( OSS ) development.  A multidimensional conceptualization of success is utilized, including both a development and a usage perspective. 

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Links to OSS research resources:
MIT Opensource Research Website
UCC resources, including ICSE Opensource Workshops proceedings