In this paper we investigate group maintenance behavior in community-based Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams. Adopting a sociolinguistic perspective, we conceptualize group maintenance behavior as interpersonal communication tactics—specifically, social presence and politeness tactics—that help maintain relationships among group members. Developer email messages were col...

The objectives of this cross-sectional study were to determine the prevalence of caries, severe caries and gingivitis in Tehran primary-school children and to analyse the relationship between children's oral hygiene habits and prevalence of these oral health diseases. Data were collected on the oral hygiene habits of 1271 Tehran schoolchildren (637 boys, 634 girls) aged 9-13 years. Clinical exa...

Information systems success is one of the most widely used dependent variables in information systems (IS) research, but research on free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) often fails to appropriately conceptualize this important concept. In this article, we reconsider what success means within a FLOSS context. We first review existing models of IS success and success variables used in FLO...

Motivating one’s workforce is a major challenge for organizations. Demotivated employees not only cause harm to organizations’ productivity and innovation but also show increased turn-over intentions. As in the case of organizations, projects developing Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) depend strongly on the motivation of their contributors. Existing research repeatedly highlights projec...

This paper presents a case study of the process of designing free/libre & open source software (FLOSS) concepts and interfaces within an open FLOSS community – the Fedora Project, a popular Linux-based operating system. This paper will review the challenges faced by designers in getting involved in FLOSS with examples from the Fedora community. It will also provide recommendations for getting s...

Be it resolved, that the FLOSS research community requires that data and analyses behind FLOSS research publications be made expeditiously available to other researchers. Research on FLOSS has relied on several different kinds of scientific evidence, such as the archives created by the FLOSS developers, versioned code repositories, mailing list messages and bug and issue tracking repositories [...

We draw on the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from general literature to identify practices for managing EV in free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities. Infrequent but ongoing participation is widespread, that community managers are using manage EV, and their concerns about have not been previously documented. conducted a policy Delphi study involving 24 FLOSS 22 different Our...

Free, Libre and Open source software (FLOSS) is an intriguing subject for study. Academic studies of FLOSS have quickly expanded over the past 5 years approaching the topic from software engineering, economics, information systems, sociology, social psychology to name just a few. The pre-print repository at MIT now has over 192 papers and even that is only a small cross-section of the research ...

Information systems success is one of the most widely used dependent variables in information systems (IS) research, but research on free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) often fails to appropriately conceptualize this important concept. In this article, we reconsider what success means within a FLOSS context. We first review existing models of IS success and success variables used in FLO...

The paper proposes a framework for the certification of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) projects. The process is two-fold and is based on our experience over the last four years of using FLOSS for teaching software engineering in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The premise of the paper is that students’ engagement with real open source projects, and more specifically with the resp...