Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects

By J. Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, S. Hissam, Karim R. huff. 2007

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The impact of membership overlap on the survival of online communities (2013, background): “…and their impact on society have attracted hundreds of researchers to study the factors that lead to community success (e.g., Kraut & Resnick 2012, Lakhani and Wolf 2003, O'Mahony& Ferraro 2007), very few of them have investigated how the relationship with other communities, such as membership…”
Location, Location, Location: How Network Embeddedness Affects Project Success in Open Source Systems (2006, background): “These software development teams are largely self-organized, i.e., the hierarchical structure that exists within firms does not directly manifest itself in the community-based model (e.g., Lakhani and Wolf 2003).”
Women’s Participation in Open Source Software: A Survey of the Literature (2021, background): “Challenges faced by women when contributing to OSS projects”
Understanding the Motivations, Participation, and Performance of Open Source Software Developers: A Longitudinal Study of the Apache Projects (2006, background): “" Indeed, a survey study by Lakhani and Wolf (2005) provides empirical support for a link between creativity and task participation.”
More than fun and money. Worker Motivation in Crowdsourcing - A Study on Mechanical Turk (2011, methodology): “While corresponding literature exists in related areas like open source software (e.g. Lakhani and Wolf (2005)) and specific domains of crowdsourcing like user generated content (e.g. Schroer and Hertel (2009) about Wikipedia) or competitions (Brabham, 2008; Leimeister, Huber, Bretschneider, and…”
Motivations to participate in online communities (2010, unknown): “Others [14, 20] have additionally looked at these”
The Principles of Distributed Innovation (2007, background): “See Lakhani and Wolf (2005), “Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects” in Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, for an overview of findings on motivations to participate in open source communities.”
The Role of Participation Architecture in Growing Sponsored Open Source Communities (2008, background): “…to open source projects do so because they enjoy solving technical problems, they identify with the project’s goals, they are interested in building their skills, or simply want to improve the software for their own use (Lakhani and Wolf, 2003; Hertel and colleagues, 2003; Hars and Ou, 2002).”
Peer production, the commons, and the future of the firm (2017, background): “(Benkler, 2002; Von Hippel and Von Krogh, 2003; on the actual diversity of motivations in FOSS see David and Shapiro, 2008; Lakhani and Wolf, 2005).”
Selective revealing in open innovation processes: the case of embedded Linux (gekürzte Version) (2006, background): “See Hertel et al. (2003) and Lakhani and Wolf (2005) for empirical studies of individuals’ motives to contribute”
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects (2009, background): “Motives to Participate in Open Source Software Projects Motives to participate related literature Software use value [20, 25, 35, 49, 55, 60, 63, 65] Status and recognition [25, 28, 35, 47, 49, 55, 63] Learning [25, 26, 28, 61, 63, 65] Personal enjoyment [25, 28, 49, 55, 65] Reciprocity [25, 35, 55]”