Developer experience · Survey/empirical study
Toward an understanding of the motivation of open source software developers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering. · 2003
Summary
Participation is associated with multiple intrinsic and extrinsic motives, not only ideology.
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Possible founder application
Design contribution pathways and recognition around several motives.
Reported result
What the study found
Participation is associated with multiple intrinsic and extrinsic motives, not only ideology.
Research question
What the authors investigated
What motivates volunteers to participate?
Design
Survey/empirical study
Sample and setting
OSS volunteer developers
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Abstract evidence; survey measures may be self-report and cross-sectional.
Research sources
Publisher DOI landing page abstract; design, context and findings are taken from the abstract.