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Volume 5, Number 38

December 13, 2007

13 pages 775 K bytes

An Examination of Initiation, Organization, Participation, Leadership, and Control of Successful Open Source Software Development Projects Michael P. Conlon Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Slippery Rock, PA 16057 USA

Abstract: While there have been many studies of software development projects, the fact that most open-source software development projects are managed in a very different way from proprietary projects may make the lessons from such studies inapplicable to open-source development. This paper examines several successful open-source software projects, in an attempt to elucidate how successful open-source projects are managed, and what facets of their initiation, leadership, organization, and control have contributed to their success.

Keywords: systems analysis, open source software, free software, software development, software engineering

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Recommended Citation: Conlon (2007). An Examination of Initiation, Organization, Participation, Leadership, and Control of Successful Open Source Software Development Projects. Information Systems Education Journal, 5 (38). http://isedj.org/5/38/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2007: §2554. ISSN: 1542-7382.)