Defining Open Source Software Project Success

By Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi, James Linton Howison. International Conference on Interaction Sciences, 2003

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Location, Location, Location: How Network Embeddedness Affects Project Success in Open Source Systems (2006, methodology): “…which should relate to product use, particularly when software is distributed through a single channel as in the case of SourceForge.net (e.g., Crowston et al. 2003) All of the " new products " that emerge from the Perl Foundry are in the same general market; hence, most of the…”
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects (2009, background): “Despite the notable success stories, many more OSS projects have failed, frequently due to insufficient volunteer participation [13, 27, 37].”
The Impact of Ideology on Effectiveness in Open Source Software Development Teams (2006, background): “As with the study of commercial software development contexts, it is important in the open source context to consider a multidimensional view of team effectiveness (Crowston et al. 2003).”
Emergence of New Project Teams from Open Source Software Developer Networks: Impact of Prior Collaboration Ties (2008, methodology): “7 See Crowston et al. (2003) for other measures of OSS success.”
Conceptualizing models using multidimensional constructs: a review and guidelines for their use (2012, background): “Similarly, team effectiveness has been viewed as multidimensional in nature (Crowston et al, 2003), yet its dimensions have also been operationalized as separate constructs with single-item measures (Stewart & Gosain, 2006).”