Developer experience · Empirical survey
Cheap talk, communities, and user participation in open source software projects
Empirical Software Engineering. · 2016
Summary
Enjoyment, intellectual challenge and reputation help explain effort, alongside paid work and use value.
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Possible founder application
Design tasks for challenge and visible impact; do not assume all contribution is unpaid.
Reported result
What the study found
Enjoyment, intellectual challenge and reputation help explain effort, alongside paid work and use value.
Research question
What the authors investigated
What explains OSS developer motivation and effort?
Design
Empirical survey
Sample and setting
Free/open source developers
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Abstract/working-paper evidence; SSRN DOI is not a journal DOI and context is older.
Research sources
Publisher DOI landing page abstract; design, context and findings are taken from the abstract.