Molefe, Onkgopotse MFogwill, TA2009-10-262009-10-262009-05Molefe, O and Fogwill, TA. 2009. Open source community organization. Information Society Technologies (IST-Africa 2009) Conference and Exhibition, Kampala, Uganda, 6-8 May 2009, pp 12978-1-905824-11-3http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3694Copyright: 2009 AuthorsOpen Source communities (OSCs), sometimes referred to as virtual or online communities play a significant role in terms of the contribution they continue to make in producing user-friendly Open Source Software (OSS) solutions. Many projects have grown rapidly due to the input provided by members of the Open Source community, who, some as volunteers and some professionally, have dedicated their time and effort to developing and improving open source software code. This paper looks at the ways in which open source communities are created, governed and maintained, and grown.enOpen source communitiesOpen source softwareOSSCommunity governanceVirtual communitiesScubuntu projectInformation society technologiesIST-Africa 2009Online communitiesOpen source software codeConference PresentationMolefe, O. M., & Fogwill, T. (2009). Open source community organization. Information Society Technologies (IST). http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3694Molefe, Onkgopotse M, and TA Fogwill. "Open source community organization." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3694Molefe OM, Fogwill T, Open source community organization; Information Society Technologies (IST); 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3694 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Molefe, Onkgopotse M AU - Fogwill, TA AB - Open Source communities (OSCs), sometimes referred to as virtual or online communities play a significant role in terms of the contribution they continue to make in producing user-friendly Open Source Software (OSS) solutions. Many projects have grown rapidly due to the input provided by members of the Open Source community, who, some as volunteers and some professionally, have dedicated their time and effort to developing and improving open source software code. This paper looks at the ways in which open source communities are created, governed and maintained, and grown. DA - 2009-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Open source communities KW - Open source software KW - OSS KW - Community governance KW - Virtual communities KW - Scubuntu project KW - Information society technologies KW - IST-Africa 2009 KW - Online communities KW - Open source software code LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2009 SM - 978-1-905824-11-3 T1 - Open source community organization TI - Open source community organization UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3694 ER -