On OSS Foundation Community Services

Eckert, Remo (22 May 2017). On OSS Foundation Community Services. In: Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium at the 13th International Conference on Open Source Systems. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 22.05.2017.

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Open source software (OSS) communities are forms of inter-organizational collaborative ecosystems. In case an OSS community is successful and the project grows, there is a need for institutionalization to involve outside parties. The OSS community face a choice of how to organize the community. Either they continue as is, join an existing foundation or they found their own foundation. In this tentative paper, we are going to show that a major motivation why communities join a foundation is due to the related services the foundation provides to them. We structure the provided services in regard to our organizational framework. While some foundations provide services across all three dimensions, other foundations set a clear focus on financial services.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Information Systems > Information Management 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Information Systems
UniBE Contributor:	Eckert, Remo
Subjects:	000 Computer science, knowledge & systems 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics
ISBN:	978-91-983667-1-6
Language:	English
Submitter:	Remo Eckert
Date Deposited:	02 Aug 2017 08:30
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:06
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/101624