Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Toward an understanding of the motivation Open Source Software developers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
A Review of Metrics for Knowledge Management Systems and Knowledge Management Initiatives
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 8 - Volume 8
A Critical Look at Open Source
Computer
APSEC '04 Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Discussion of a Large-Scale Open Source Data Collection Methodology
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
A Topological Analysis of the Open Souce Software Development Community
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Knowledge Reuse in Open Source Software: An Exploratory Study of 15 Open Source Projects
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Studying Software Engineers: Data Collection Techniques for Software Field Studies
Empirical Software Engineering
Using software trails to reconstruct the evolution of software: Research Articles
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - Analyzing the Evolution of Large-Scale Software
Self-Organization Patterns in Wasp and Open Source Communities
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Managing volunteer activity in free software projects
ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Information and Software Technology
Seeing eye to eye? An exploratory study of free open source software users' perceptions
Journal of Systems and Software
On the central role of mailing lists in open source projects: an exploratory study
JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
Exploring the perception and behavior of software engineers about computer software patent
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Diffusion dynamics of open source software: An agent-based computational economics (ACE) approach
Decision Support Systems
Are you ready for knowledge sharing? An empirical study of virtual communities
Computers & Education
Information Resources Management Journal
Adopting softer approaches in the study of repository data: a comparative analysis
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Creating a shared understanding of testing culture on a social coding site
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
How social Q&A sites are changing knowledge sharing in open source software communities
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Selecting open source software projects to teach software engineering
Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Software developers are humans, too!
Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects are people-oriented and knowledge intensive software development environments. Many researchers focused on mailing lists to study coding activities of software developers. How expert software developers interact with each other and with non-developers in the use of community products have received little attention. This paper discusses the altruistic sharing of knowledge between knowledge providers and knowledge seekers in the Developer and User mailing lists of the Debian project. We analyze the posting and replying activities of the participants by counting the number of email messages they posted to the lists and the number of replies they made to questions others posted. We found out that participants interact and share their knowledge a lot, their positing activity is fairly highly correlated with their replying activity, the characteristics of posting and replying activities are different for different kinds of lists, and the knowledge sharing activity of self-organizing Free/Open Source communities could best be explained in terms of what we called ''Fractal Cubic Distribution'' rather than the power-law distribution mostly reported in the literature. The paper also proposes what could be researched in knowledge sharing activities in F/OSS projects mailing list and for what purpose. The research findings add to our understanding of knowledge sharing activities in F/OSS projects.