The shifting sands of motivation: Revisiting what drives contributors in open source

• Main Authors: GEROSA, Marco, WIESE, Igor, TRINKENREICH, Bianca, LINK, Georg, ROBLES, Gregorio, TREUDE, Christoph, STEINMACHER, Igor, SARMA, Anita
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Incentive; Motivation; Open source; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8870; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9873/viewcontent/icse21c.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry participation, and providing professional career opportunities. But our field's understanding of what motivates people to contribute...