Research around Open Source Communities

A list of research around open source and relevant quotes

Open Source Benefits

• Harvard: Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness
  • "All of these outcomes help to increase productivity and competitiveness at the national level. In aggregate, these results show that changes in government technology policy that favor OSS can have a positive impact on both global social value and domestic national competitiveness."
• Harvard: Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods
  • "Data on firm contributions to open source software (OSS), an important crowdsourced public good, is used to test the theoretical predictions. Using matching and panel data methods to help address endogeneity concerns, this study shows that contributing firms capture up to 100% more productive value from usage of OSS than their free-riding peers."
• World Bank: Leveraging Open Source as a Public Institution — New analysis reveals significant returns on investment in open source technologies
  • "...achieved at least a 200% return on investment in its open source software efforts" (PDF)

Open Source Foundations

• Henrik Ingo: How to grow your open source project 10x and revenues 5x ([PDF](How to Grow Your Open Source Project 10x and Revenues 5x Presentation.pdf))
• FAU: Managing Commercial Conflicts of Interest in Open Source Foundations
• FAU: The Economics of Open Source User Foundations

Other Open Source Research

• Open Source Governance: Getting Started Best Practices For Software Companies
• FAU: Predictors of Successful Open Source Projects
• FAU: Why Do Episodic Volunteers Stay in FLOSS Communities?
• UFMG: How do Developers Promote Open Source Projects?
• EMSE 2018: On the Challenges of Open-Sourcing Proprietary Software Projects