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The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
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Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
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Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory
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Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis
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Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and its organizational impact
An empirical analysis of open source software developers' motivations and continuance intentions
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Journal of Management Information Systems
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Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
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Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
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Network ties and the success of open source software development
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IT-driven identity work: Creating a group identity in a digital environment
Information and Organization
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Prior research into open source software (OSS) developer participation has emphasized individuals' motivations for joining these volunteer communities, but it has failed to explain why people stay or leave in the long run. Building upon Lave and Wenger's theory of legitimate peripheral participation (LPP), this paper offers a longitudinal investigation of one OSS community in which sustained participation is hypothesized to be associated with the coevolution of two major elements of LPP theory: "situated learning" (the process of acting knowledgeably and purposefully in the world) and "identity construction" (the process of being identified within the community). To test this hypothesis, data were collected from multiple sources, including online public project documents, electronic mail messages, tracker messages, and log files. Results from qualitative analyses revealed that initial conditions to participate did not effectively predict long-term participation, but that situated learning and identity construction behaviors were positively linked to sustained participation. Furthermore, this study reveals that sustained participants distinguished themselves by consistently engaging in situated learning that both made conceptual (advising others) and practical contributions (improving the code). Implications and future research are discussed.