Course: Dynamics of Libre Software communities

Dynamics of Libre Software Communities

Welcome to the Dynamics of Libre Software Communities course. Through this website, you will find all the information and resources which will help and support you during this course. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please do not hesitate to use the available resources: mailing list or forum.
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Libre Software Communities: Introduction and Basics
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Mining data from FLOSS projects
- Slides
- Introduction to data analysis File
- Introduction to R File
- Linear Models in R File
- How to write (empirical and/or miining) research papers (in Spanish) File
- Exercises
- R Receipts
- Analyzing FLOSS projects with R File
- Introduction to R with FLOSS (Spanish version) File
- R receipts File
- Schema for SCM data (CVSAnalY) File
- Linear models
- Linear models with R - lab session (Spanish) File
- References
- How to write consistently boring scientific literature File
- Mining Software Engineering Data
- Canadian Summer School on Practical Analyses of Software Engineering Data (videos and slides) URL
- Statistics with R
- Introduction to probability and statistics using R URL
- R programming (Wikibooks) URL
- Introductory Statistics with R URL
- Using R for data analysis and Graphics (J.H. Maindonald) URL
- Lattice: Multivariate data visualization with R (examples and code) URL
- Time Series Analysis and its Applications (with R examples) (examples and code) URL
- R-bloggers URL
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Social structure in FLOSS
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Roles, Policies and Volunteer Management in FLOSS Communities
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Wikipedia / Developers motivation
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Dynamics of libre software communities

Libre software projects are usually developed in a community environment. After introducing the basical concepts about libre software, this course will present the basical structure of this community, what roles are the most usual, how those roles interact among them, what are the tools used to manage the community, etc. The course will introduce research methods to extract information out of those communities, which is useful for management purposes. After this course, the student should know how people and companies approach to and collaborate with libre software projects, and which are the processes for the day to day work in a project.

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