An Open Source Software (OSS) project can be considered as a new type of business entity involving various roles and stakeholders, e.g., project managers, developers, and users, who apply individual methods. The project managers have the responsibility to manage the OSS development in a way that the OSS product can be delivered to the customers in time and with good quality. This responsibility...

The open source software (OSS) development communities have experienced rapid growth in recent years. Previous social network studies on OSS communities focused on collaboration relationships. However, information about how OSS community members perceive each other is largely ignored. In this study, we report an empirical investigation of the evaluation network in an online OSS community which ...

Open source software (OSS) products have been widely adopted by commercial as well as government organizations. However, despite their increased adoption, many OSS projects still fail in responding to users’ quality needs such as resolving software defects. Hence, this paper investigates the responsiveness of OSS projects to users’ needs in terms of resolving software defects. To do so, we deve...

Open source software (OSS) previously regarded as a fad by many academics has been rapidly adopted by both public and private sector organizations. The challenge facing most organizations is how to evaluate OSS adoption benefits. OSS adoption is a complex phenomenon which requires an interdisciplinary approach to understand the socio-technical, political, economic and legal benefits. The comple...

Despite the growing literature on Open Source Software (OSS) innovation, knowledge about gender issues within the OSS innovation process is inadequate. This paper begins with some introduction on OSS innovation process, it then continues with the discussion of the current problems on gender and OSS innovations. The paper argues that appropriate feminist approach may be useful in augmenting the ...

There is a general consensus about the lack of usability in most open source software (OSS). Academics and practitioners have offered several suggestions to improve the usability of such software. However, a realistic assessment of OSS projects, specifically the motivations of OSS developers and their attitude toward software usability, lack of user feedback, and absence of usability experts in...

PURPOSE Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is potentially useful as an adjunct to allograft and xenograft materials in oral and maxillofacial bone and implant reconstructive surgery. This study compares bone healing and formation in 4 cranial defects in rabbits grafted with autogenous bone, xenograft, and xenograft with PRP (with a no-graft group as a control). MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifteen New Zeala...

Open Source Software (OSS) is usually developed by geographically-distributed developers in a collaborative manner. Different developers exhibit different behaviors and make diversified contributions to OSS projects. Objective of this paper is to discover individualized characteristics and common patterns of how developers contribute to OSS projects. Continuity is used to delineate how a develo...

Unlike closed source software development, open source software (OSS) projects are not commonly driven by direct profit and do not offer developers monetary incentives. Instead, OSS development relies on volunteer developers and voluntary contributions from the user community. Thus, attracting voluntary user contributions to OSS projects is a challenging task. Defect fixing is one important are...