Why do episodic volunteers stay in FLOSS communities?

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dc.contributor.authorBarcomb, Ann
dc.contributor.authorStol, Klaas-Jan
dc.contributor.authorRiehle, Dirk
dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Brian
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-20T12:02:45Z
dc.date.available2018-12-20T12:02:45Z
dc.date.issued2019-05
dc.date.updated2018-12-20T11:55:59Z
dc.description.abstractSuccessful Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects incorporate both habitual and infrequent, or episodic, contributors. Using the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature, we derive a model consisting of five key constructs that we hypothesize affect episodic volunteers’ retention in FLOSS communities. To evaluate the model we conducted a survey and received responses from over 100 FLOSS episodic volunteers. We observe that three of the constructs (social norms, satisfaction and community commitment) are all positively associated with volunteers’ in- tention to remain, while the two other constructs (psychological sense of community and contributor benefit motivations) are not. Furthermore, exploratory clustering on unobserved heterogeneity suggests that there are four distinct categories of volunteers: satisfied, classic, social and obligated. Based on our findings, we offer suggestions for projects to incorporate and manage episodic volunteers, so as to better leverage this type of contributors and potentially improve projects’ sustainability.en
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dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBarcomb, A., Stol, K-J., Riehle, D., and Fitzgerald, B. (2019) 'Why Do Episodic Volunteers Stay in FLOSS Communities?', 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, Montreal, Canada, 25-31 May. Forthcoming.en
dc.identifier.endpage12en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7248
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartof41st International Conference on Software Engineering
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG)/15/SIRG/3293/IE/Software Development with Alternative Workforces/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2094/IE/Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre/en
dc.relation.urihttps://2019.icse-conferences.org/home
dc.rights© 2018 the authorsen
dc.subjectCommunity managementen
dc.subjectEpisodic volunteeringen
dc.subjectOpen source softwareen
dc.subjectVolunteer managementen
dc.titleWhy do episodic volunteers stay in FLOSS communities?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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