Understanding and Enhancing a Participatory Culture of Software Development

Facebook和Twitter等社交媒体的采用率在技术采用史上是前所未有的。这些工具对许多领域产生了深远的破坏性影响。 同样，我们看到了社交媒体对软件开发的变革性影响。像GitHub这样的社会化编码网站，以及像Stack Overflow这样的社区创作问答论坛，已经成为许多软件工程师事实上的工具集的一部分。这些社交工具促进了参与式开发文化的出现，在这种文化中，开发人员热衷于与他人联系，学习和共同创造。这种参与式开发文化加速了重要的开放源码软件和技术资源的创建和共享。

The adoption rate of social media such as Facebook and Twitter has been unprecedented in the history of technology adoption. These tools have had a profound and disruptive impact on many domains. Likewise, we see a transformative impact from the use of social media on software development. Social coding sites such as GitHub, and community authored question and answer forums such as Stack Overflow, have become part of the de facto toolset for many software engineers. These social tools facilitate the emergence of a participatory development culture, where developers are keen to connect with, learn from, and co-create with others. This participatory development culture has accelerated the creation and sharing of important open source software and technical resources.