Resilience in the Open Source Software Community: How Pandemic and Unemployment Shocks Influence Contributions to Others’ and One’s Own Projects

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Possible founder application

Plan contributor-resilience measures and distinguish community health from maintainers’ own-project activity.

Reported result

What the study found

Pandemic and unemployment shocks had opposite effects on contributions to others’ projects relative to own projects.

Research question

What the authors investigated

How does the study’s stated design explain its reported outcome in this setting?

Design

Longitudinal observational analysis

Sample and setting

Over 18,000 GitHub OSS members and more than 1.4 million member-day observations.

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

Abstract/page evidence limits detailed sample and external-validity assessment.

Research sources

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