Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects

By Igor Fabio Steinmacher, Tayana Uchôa Conte, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, David F. Redmiles. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2015

310 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

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In Communication

1. Marco Aurélio Gerosa
2. Igor Fabio Steinmacher
3. Georgios Gousios

In Computer Science Applications

1. Margaret-Anne D. Storey
2. Georgios Gousios
3. Alberto Bacchelli
4. Marco Aurélio Gerosa
5. Igor Fabio Steinmacher
6. Premkumar T. Devanbu

Citations in the corpus

• Women’s Participation in Open Source Software: A Survey of the Literature (2021, background): “Previous work investigated challenges faced by OSS contributors who are mentors and newcomers [6, 72, 104, 105].”
• Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development: The Contributor's Perspective (2014, methodology): “A common theme in those studies is that recruitment of new developers can be challenging [21], as core teams are reluctant to give access to the main repository without an initiation process [9].”