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Recommended Citation: Conlon, M P. An Examination of Initiation, Organization, Participation, Leadership, and Control of Successful Open Source Software Development Projects. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2007, v 24 (Pittsburgh): §2554. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 5(38). ISSN: 1545-679X.)

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An Examination of Initiation, Organization, Participation, Leadership, and Control of Successful Open Source Software Development Projects

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11 pages

Michael P. Conlon    [a1] [a2]
Computer Science Department
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania    [u1] [u2]
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, USA    [c1] [c2]

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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