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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Fri 31 May 2019 14:40 - 15:00 at Centre-Ville - Human Factors Chair(s): Christoph Treude

Successful Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects incorporate both habitual and infrequent, or episodic, contributors. Using the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature, we derive a model consisting of five key constructs that we hypothesize affect episodic volunteers’ retention in FLOSS communities. To evaluate the model we conducted a survey and received responses from over 100 FLOSS episodic volunteers. We observe that three of the constructs (social norms, satisfaction and community commitment) are all positively associated with volunteers’ intention to remain, while the two other constructs (psychological sense of community and contributor benefit motivations) are not. Furthermore, exploratory clustering on unobserved heterogeneity suggests that there are four distinct categories of volunteers: satisfied, classic, social and obligated. Based on our findings, we offer suggestions for projects to incorporate and manage episodic volunteers, so as to better leverage this type of contributors and potentially improve projects’ sustainability.

Fri 31 May

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14:00 - 15:30
Human FactorsJournal-First Papers / Technical Track / Papers at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Christoph Treude The University of Adelaide
14:00
20m
Talk
How Practitioners Perceive Coding ProficiencyTechnical TrackIndustry Program
Technical Track
Xin Xia Monash University, Zhiyuan Wan Zhejiang University, Pavneet Singh Kochhar Microsoft, David Lo Singapore Management University
14:20
20m
Talk
Socio-Technical Work-Rate Increase Associates With Changes in Work Patterns in Online ProjectsTechnical TrackIndustry Program
Technical Track
Farhana Sarker , Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland, Vladimir Filkov University of California at Davis, USA
Pre-print
14:40
20m
Talk
Why Do Episodic Volunteers Stay in FLOSS Communities?Technical Track
Technical Track
Ann Barcomb Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Klaas-Jan Stol University College Cork and Lero, Ireland, Dirk Riehle , Brian Fitzgerald Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick
Pre-print
15:00
10m
Talk
Uncovering the Periphery: A Qualitative Survey of Episodic Volunteering in Free/Libre and Open Source Software CommunitiesJournal-First
Journal-First Papers
Ann Barcomb Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Andreas Kaufmann Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Dirk Riehle , Klaas-Jan Stol University College Cork and Lero, Ireland, Brian Fitzgerald Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick
DOI Pre-print
15:10
10m
Talk
Discovering Community Patterns in Open-Source: A Systematic Approach and Its EvaluationJournal-First
Journal-First Papers
Damian Andrew Tamburri TU/e, Fabio Palomba University of Zurich, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Andy Zaidman TU Delft
Pre-print
15:20
10m
Talk
Discussion Period
Papers