Browsing Theses (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) by Author "Paulson, Paul"

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Gender and participation in early stages of the free/open source software joining process

Gilbertson, Claire E. (2011-08-30)

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) is a powerful development paradigm for creating software. Increasingly more FOSS projects, like Firefox and Android, are integrated into mainstream technology. It is important that FOSS ...
Joining open source software communities: an analysis of newbies’ first interactions on project mailing lists

King, Scott T. (2009-04-03)

Open source software has become a powerful force in the world of computing. While once confined to the domain of technical specialists, people of all types have begun to adopt this software – from the casual web-surfer ...