Free software developers as an occupational community: resolving conflicts and fostering collaboration
Free software developers as an occupational community: resolving conflicts and fostering collaboration
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自由软件开发人员作为职业社区：解决冲突并促进协作
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2003
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W. Scacchi
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M. Elliott;W. Scacchi
在本文中，我们介绍了自由软件开发虚拟组织、GNU Enterprise (GNUe) 项目的研究结果，以及他们如何在全球分布的自由软件开发项目中开发软件。特别是，举例说明了他们如何减轻和解决冲突。使用非自由工具创建 GNUe 图形以及使用非自由工具创建 GNUe 文档会产生冲突。 GNUe 开发人员使用互联网中继聊天 (IRC)、线程式电子邮件讨论和社区摘要来解决冲突。我们将 GNUe 开发人员描述为自由/开源软件 (F/OSS) 开发人员职业社区中的一种职业亚文化，并展示了对自由软件和选择自由的信念以及合作工作和社区的价值观如何帮助 GNUe 贡献者减轻和解决冲突。此外，我们还展示了尽管虚拟组织中的成员界限不断变化，但 GNUe IRC 上的日常讨论如何有助于建立和延续 GNUe 贡献者以及 F/OSS 开发人员的全球社区。
In this paper, we present results from the study of a free software development virtual organization, the GNU Enterprise (GNUe) project, and how they develop software in a globally distributed free software development project. In particular, examples of how they mitigate and resolve conflict are presented. Conflict arises over the use of a non-free tool to create GNUe graphic, and over the use of a non-free tool for GNUe documentation. The GNUe developers resolve the conflict using internet relay chat (IRC), threaded email discussions, and community digests. We characterize the GNUe developers as an occupational subculture within the occupational community of free/open source software (F/OSS) developers and show how the beliefs in free software and freedom of choice, and values in cooperative work and community assist GNUe contributors in mitigating and resolving conflict. In addition, we show how, despite fluctuating boundaries of membership in a virtual organization, daily discussions on the GNUe IRC serve to build and perpetuate the global community of GNUe contributors as well as F/OSS developers in general.