Collaboration using OSSmole: a repository of FLOSS data and analyses
MSR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Growing bloom: design of a visualization of project evolution
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Understanding knowledge sharing activities in free/open source software projects: An empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software
Can developer-module networks predict failures?
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Latent social structure in open source projects
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Analysis of virtual communities supporting OSS projects using social network analysis
Information and Software Technology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Social interactions around cross-system bug fixings: the case of FreeBSD and OpenBSD
Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
An analysis of collaborative patterns in large-scale ontology development projects
Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Knowledge capture
Network analysis of OSS evolution: an empirical study on ArgoUML project
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution
Modeling the growth of complex software function dependency networks
Information Systems Frontiers
A genetic search of patterns of behaviour in OSS communities
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An empirical study on identifying core developers using network analysis
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Evidential assessment of software technologies
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes
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The fast growth of OSS has increased the interest in studying the composition of the OSS community and its collaboration mechanisms. Moreover, the success of a project may be related to the underlying social structure of the OSS development community. In this paper, we perform a quantitative analysis of Open Source Software developers by studying the entire development community at SourceForge. Statistics and social network properties are explored to find collaborations and the effects of different members in the OSS development community. Small world phenomenon and scale free behaviors are found in the SourceForge development network. These topological properties may potentially explain the success and efficiency of OSS development practices. We also infer from our analysis that weakly associated but contributing co-developers and active users may be an important factor in OSS development.