Knowledge Creation in Virtual Communities – Exploring Practices in Open Source Software Hacker Communities

Knowledge sharing in open source software communities: motivations and management

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Strategic Interaction and Knowledge Sharing in Open Source Software Communities

This paper argues that open source software (OSS) developers often strategically select to work with other highly resourceful individuals to form a small but better organized network to manage a large but potentially chaotic OSS community. The small network arrangement affords individual developers to engage in a reciprocal interdependent relationship, which not only brings them closer to the c...

Open source software communities: current issues

Communities of Practice for Open Source Software

Strategic and economic considerations led the University of São Paulo to institute a program to promote the use of OSS, also driven by a national OSS dissemination policy that draws a lot of mass media attention. The major drivers were software license cost reductions and independence from single vendors, as well as the perception that OSS allows increased user control over systems and interope...

Exploring Key Hackers and Cyber Threats in Chinese Hacker Communities

Chinese hacker communities are of interest to cybersecurity researchers and investigators. When examining Chinese hacker communities, researchers and investigators face many challenges, including understanding the Chinese language, detecting variations in topic evolution, and identifying key hackers with their specialty areas. Therefore, we are motivated to develop a framework for analyzing key...