Abstract : During a long time, software engineering research has been trying to better understand open-source communities and uncover two fundamental questions: (i) who are the contributors and (i) why they contribute. Most of these researches focus on well-known OSS projects, but little is known about the OSS movement in emerging countries. In this paper, we attempt to fill this gap by presenting a picture of the Brazilian open-source contributor. To achieve this goal, we examined activities from more than 12,400 programmers on Github, during the period of a year. Subsequently, we correlate our findings with a survey that was answered by more than 1,000 active contributors. Our results show that exists an OSS trend in Brazil: most part of the contributors are active, performing around 30 contributions per year, and they contribute to OSS basically by altruism.
Luis Corral; Alberto Sillitti; Giancarlo Succi; Jelena Vlasenko; Anthony I. Wasserman. 10th IFIP International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS), May 2014, San José, Costa Rica. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, AICT-427, pp.202-211, 2014, Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies. 〈10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_30〉
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Gustavo Pinto, Fernando Kamei. The Census of the Brazilian Open-Source Community. Luis Corral; Alberto Sillitti; Giancarlo Succi; Jelena Vlasenko; Anthony I. Wasserman. 10th IFIP International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS), May 2014, San José, Costa Rica. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, AICT-427, pp.202-211, 2014, Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies. 〈10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_30〉. 〈hal-01373102〉
