Open Source communities (OSCs), sometimes referred to as virtual or online communities play a significant role in terms of the contribution they continue to make in producing user-friendly Open Source Software (OSS) solutions. Many projects have grown rapidly due to the input provided by members of the Open Source community, who, some as volunteers and some professionally, have dedicated their time and effort to developing and improving open source software code. This paper looks at the ways in which open source communities are created, governed and maintained, and grown.
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Molefe, O and Fogwill, TA. 2009. Open source community organization. Information Society Technologies (IST-Africa 2009) Conference and Exhibition, Kampala, Uganda, 6-8 May 2009, pp 12
Molefe, O. M., & Fogwill, T. (2009). Open source community organization. Information Society Technologies (IST). http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3694
Molefe, Onkgopotse M, and TA Fogwill. "Open source community organization." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3694
Molefe OM, Fogwill T, Open source community organization; Information Society Technologies (IST); 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3694 .
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