Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Using Software Archaeology to Measure Knowledge Loss in Software Projects Due to Developer Turnover
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Impact of license choice on Open Source Software development activity
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects
Information Systems Research
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The acquisition of new knowledge is a critical task for software development. IT companies spend considerable resources in the training of their employees to succeed in a continuously changing industry. Depending on the voluntary commitment of their contributors, initiatives developing Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) identified members' learning and their retention as vital. Although contributors' knowledge building has been repeatedly found to facilitate their project continuance, FLOSS projects are lacking operational advices on how to assist their members' learning. Drawing on previous literature which emphasizes project members' social interactions and their practical experiences to build new knowledge, we propose mentoring as a training method for FLOSS projects. Based on organizational experiences, we propose a measure to evaluate mentoring as an appropriate strategy for FLOSS initiatives to facilitate individuals' learning and to retain their contributors on longitudinal base.