Federated Africa and Middle East Conference on Software Engineering 7-8 June, 2022 Egypt-Uganda

Open Source Software Sociology: Engineering Open Source Software Ecosystem for Impact and Sustainability

07 Jun 2022
11:30 - 12:15
Online

Open Source Software Sociology: Engineering Open Source Software Ecosystem for Impact and Sustainability

Minghui Zhou

Goals and objectives

Open source Software(OSS) ecosystems have had a tremendous impact on computing and society, while their sustainability poses great challenges to both practitioners and researchers. We utilize vast collections of open data produced by distributed version control and social media to discover the mechanisms by which such ecosystems form and operate, which we call open source software sociology.