Understanding Open Source Software Development

了解开源软件开发

• 批准号: 0222829
• 负责人: Gregory Madey
• 金额: $ 31.05万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0222829&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Open; Source; Software; Development

This project examines the dynamics of the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, a genuine behavioral and technical puzzle with a far-reaching impact on the world's economy. The OSS community has developed a substantial portion of the infrastructure of the internet and has many outstanding technical achievements, without the benefit of traditional project management techniques, organizational structure, face to face interaction, and in most cases, without direct monetary compensation. We seek to understand the factors that predict developer retention and project success, and to model the growth of the OSS network over time in order to inform policy decisions regarding the OSS movement. We develop an organizational behavior/social psychological model of developer motivation and project effectiveness using a modification of Hackman & Oldham's job characteristics model and March's role identity construct, and use simulation, data mining, and agent-based modeling techniques to model how the OSS network develops over time.

本项目研究开源软件（OSS）运动的动态，这是一个真正的行为和技术难题，对世界经济产生深远的影响。开放源码软件社区开发了互联网基础设施的很大一部分，并取得了许多杰出的技术成就，但没有传统的项目管理技术、组织结构、面对面的互动，而且在大多数情况下没有直接的金钱补偿。我们试图了解预测开发人员保留和项目成功的因素，并对OSS网络随时间的增长进行建模，以便为有关OSS运动的政策决策提供信息。我们开发了一个组织行为/社会心理模型的开发人员的动机和项目的有效性，使用修改哈克曼奥尔德姆的工作特征模型和三月的角色身份结构，并使用模拟，数据挖掘，和基于代理的建模技术来模拟OSS网络如何随着时间的推移而发展。